| Variant title |
Alice Paul & the fight for women's rights |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Quaker roots -- Protest lessons in London -- Upstaging the President-elect -- Shaking up the Woman Suffrage Movement -- A permanent delegation to the White House -- From picket lines to prison cells and back -- Hunger strike! -- "Like ... sand that gets into your eyes" -- Equal rights for women -- A new generation demands equal rights -- Epilogue -- Who is who. |
| Abstract |
Here is the story of leader Alice Paul, from the women's suffrage movement -- the long struggle for votes for women -- to the "second wave," when women demanded full equality with men. Paul made a significant impact on both. She reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the right to vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Passage of the ERA became the rallying cry of a new movement of young women in the 1960s and '70s. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. She set in motion the "sex amendment," which remains a crucial legal tool for helping women fight discrimination in the workplace. Includes archival images, author's note, bibliography, and source notes. |
| Local note | Joyner TRC copy purchased in memory of James Thompson, 2021. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-206) and index. |
| Interest age level |
Ages 11 and up |
| Interest grade level |
Grades 9-12 |
| Audience |
1050 Lexile |
| Study program note |
Accelerated Reader |
| Study program note |
Reading Counts |
| Awards note | Junior Library Guild selection. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile works. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2016951184 |
| ISBN | 9781629793238 |
| ISBN | 162979323X |
