Lifting as we climb : Black women's battle for the ballot box

Author

Evette Dionne

Call Number

• J 324.623 DION (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Publication Information

New York : Viking, 2020.

Physical Description

170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle."--Publisher's description.

Contents

• Preface: not the history you learned in school
• Abolitionist women embrace the fight
• "Ain't I a woman?" : the cult of true womanhood
• The negro hour is upon us
• The rise of Black women's suffrage clubs
• Voting is only for educated women
• Taking it to the streets
• The back of the movement : the Women's Suffrage March
• Voting out Jim Crow
• Epilogue: continuing to climb.