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Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box

Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this. Women in black church groups, black female sororities, black women's improvement societies and social clubs. Women who formed their own black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them. Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Jullia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education; or the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements.

Author Evette Dionne, a feminist culture writer and the editor-in-chief of Bitch Media, has uncovered an extraordinary and underrepresented history of black women. In her powerful book, she draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists--filling in the blanks of the American suffrage story.

  • Another Black Author

    Evette Dionne is an American culture writer. Her young adult debut Lifting As We Climb was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Dionne was editor-in-chief of Bitch from 2018 until 2021.

  • Type

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Viking Books for Young Readers

  • Publish Date

    April 21, 2020

$20.00Price

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