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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1820-1906 Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1820-1906 Juvenile literature Feminists Feminists United States Biography Feminists United States Biography Juvenile literature Suffragists Suffragists United States Biography Suffragists United States Biography Juvenile literature United States Women Suffrage United States HistoryKulling, Monica
Summary: "It's not fair." Susan B. Anthony was very concerned about fairness and equality for women and girls in America. She knew it wasn't fair to pay a woman less than a man for the same job. She knew it wasn't fair not to allow women to vote in elections. In fact, it was illegal for women to vote. But she felt so strongly, she voted in an election--and was arrested--anyway. Young readers will learn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN KULStirling, Jasmine
Summary: "Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized people across the nation to dare to question a woman's right to vote"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Union Square Kids 2023
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Summary: Profiles the life and accomplishments of the schoolteacher who became the most famous leader of the women's rights movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ANTHONYCarpenter, Angelica Shirley
Summary: Radical, feminist, writer, suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage changed the course of history. She fought for equal rights not dependent on sex, race, class, or creed. Yet her name has faded into obscurity. She is forgotten when her comrades, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are celebrated. To explain, Angelica Shirley Carpenter explores Gage's life, including her rise and fall within the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: South Dakota Historical Society Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GAGFranzen, Trisha
Summary: "Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha Franzen rectifies that oversight with this first scholarly biography of Shaw, a study that illuminates Shaw's oft-ignored early years and challenges existing scholarship on her time in the suffrage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAW, HOWARD ANNA FRAAronson, Amy
Summary: "Crystal Eastman was a central figure in many of the defining social movements of the twentieth century -- labor, feminism, internationalism, free speech, peace. She drafted America's first serious workers' compensation law. She helped found the NationalWoman's Party and is credited as co-author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She helped found the Woman's Peace Party -- today, the Women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EASTMAN, CRYSTAL AROSummary: "The National Park Service is excited to commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished sex as a basis for voting and to tell the diverse history of women's suffrage-the right to vote-more broadly. The U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment on June 4, 1919. The states ratified the amendment on August 18, 1920, officially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 324.6 WOMKanefield, Teri
Summary: In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her committed into an asylum based on his word, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the radical notion that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Abrams 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTWallner, Alexandra.
Summary: A brief biography of women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony that discusses her early years and her battle to earn women fair treatment and the right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTFankhouser, Kris
Summary: "A biography on the American women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANTHamlin, Kimberly A
Summary: "How one "fallen woman" battled religious ideology, pseudoscience, and political resistance to women's right to vote. Exposed in Ohio newspapers for an affair with a married man, Alice Chenowyth refused to cower in shame. Instead she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, pretended to be married to her lover, and became a wildly popular lecturer and author, brazenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARDENER, HELEN H. HAMWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 WARLatta, Sara L.
Summary: Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War surgeon, a spy captured by the Confederacy, and the only woman to have ever been awarded the Medal of Honor. But she was erased from history, in part because her ideas didn't fit with the mainstream suffrage movement. Latta introduces readers to Walker's remarkable life and accomplishments. She shows how Walker continued to break gender norms and speak out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 WALGillibrand, Kirsten
Summary: Profiles ten women who fought hard to gain the right to vote in the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Inez Milholland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 GILBjornlund, Lydia D.
Summary: "Examines leaders of the suffrage movement, the role of African American women in the movement, militant suffragists, and antisuffragists."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.623 BJOWard, Geoffrey C.
Summary: Meet important historical personalities, scientists, aviators, and athletes in this series that illustrate the impact dynamic leaders have on society. These books are sure to inspire young readers as they learn about the lives of famous people. Each book includes a timeline of important dates, a glossary, and an index. Included in the back of each book are additional resources such as At the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WARSlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Discusses how a former slave and an outspoken woman, who came from two different worlds, shared deep-seated beliefs in equality and the need to fight for it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 303.48 Slade 2015Kops, Deborah
Summary: Describes the life and accomplishments of the women's rights activist, from her youth to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 PAUWeisberg, Barbara.
Summary: A biography of an early leader in the campaign for women's rights, particularly in getting women the right to vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1988
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ANTHONY WEIZahniser, Jill Diane.
Summary: Alice Paul has long been an elusive figure in the political history of American women. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and, in the next seven years, dominated that campaign and drove it to victory with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford Univ Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PAUL, ALICE ZAHStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: This inspiring story is about an extraordinary woman who changed America forever because she wouldn't take no for an answer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: JE America StoneHopkinson, Deborah.
Summary: Like other girls of her time Susan B. Anthony learned how to cook and sew. But unlike most girls she also received an education. She learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. She was also taught that girls and women could do anything boys and men could do-if only they were allowed. So Susan set out to change the laws. She fought for a woman's right to own property, hold down a job, and, most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2005
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Summary: New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like--carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Mews Books, and imprint of New York University Press 2017