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Pub. Date
2020.
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"When the United States of America began as a country, only white men who owned land could vote. Over the last 230 years, people have fought and protested and even died to expand the right to vote to include every adult over the age of eighteen--in theory. Today, are there ways you can lose your right to vote? And if it's too difficult to vote, can we really say that you still have that right? Voting is the best and sometimes only way Americans can...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rusted slavery chains, politcal cartoons, and a tube of red lipstick . . . how are these three objects related? Along with other artifacts, these items help tell the story of women's suffrage in the United States. In this Time Capsule History book, readers take a closer look at the historic fight by digging into an imaginary time capsule filled with primary sources. Open it up to explore the fight for voting rights!
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Contains an extensive view of suffrage from the Founding Fathers to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to today's voter suppression controversies, and explains the barriers people of color, Indigenous people, and immigrants face. -- amazon.com
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Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
7) Vote!
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Using a campaign for mayor as an example, shows the steps involved in an election, from the candidate's speeches and rallies, to the voting booth where every vote counts, to the announcement of the winner.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively...
10) V is for voting
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A timely picture book that acts as an introduction to civics for young readers"--
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