Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
Deborah Kops (Author)
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
Print Book, English, 2017
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, 2017
Biography
Ages 10-17.
220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781629793238, 162979323X
954670686
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