Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights
Subtitle: from the vote to the equal rights amendment
By: Deborah Kops
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781629793238
Subjects: Suffragists; Juvenile literature; Women's rights
Description: Here is the story of extraordinary leader Alice Paul, from the woman 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 vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional.
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Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Quaker roots; title: Protest lessons in London; title: Upstaging the President-elect; title: Shaking up the Woman Suffrage Movement; title: A permanent delegation to the White House; title: From picket lines to prison cells and back; title: Hunger strike!; title: "Like ... sand that gets into your eyes"; title: Equal rights for women; title: A new generation demands equal rights; title: Epilogue; title: Who is who.