Fannie Lou Hamer
1917-1977
When she found out that blacks had the right to vote under the U.S. Constitution, but had been denied that right by local laws and prejudiced officials, Hamer was outraged. For the next fifteen years she dedicated her life to organizing southern blacks to claim their legal right to vote and be recognized as a significant force in national politics. She suffered beatings by the police, lost her job, and was forced to leave her home because of her belief in justice for all. In 1964, she led the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation to the Democratic Convention, forcing the party to reconsider the way in which women and minorities were represented within its state delegations.
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Rosa
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Rosa
Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.
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If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights
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If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights
by Anne KammaThere was a time that girls and women in the United States could not: wear pants; play sports on a team; ride a bicycle; or go to college.
That all began to change in 1848, when American women (and some men) met in Seneca Falls, NY, at the first convention for women's rights held anywhere in the world.
In the familiar question-and-answer format, this installment in the acclaimed If You Lived... history series tells the exciting story of how women worked to get equal rights with men, culminating in the 19th amendment to the Constitution and giving women the right to vote.
Readers find out what life was like for girls in those days and meet the pioneering figures in the movement, including Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Alice Paul.
Anne Kamma has written several books in the series including If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America and If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast, both illustrated by Pamela Johnson.
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