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[2018]., Adolescent, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 339.2 2 0973 Click here to read this eBook. Summary Note: Looks at how state and local governments, businesses, and citizens are fighting to close the gap between the rich and the poor.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 324.62 Fra Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Commemorates the one-hundred-year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment by documenting the history and struggle for women's right to vote. Highlights key figures in the movement, includes information on how antislavery and women's suffrage leaders became allies, and details the incremental steps that led up to the passing of the Amendment. Expands to cover African Americans' fight against Jim Crow laws of the South designed to prevent them from voting and other women's rights causes in the twentieth century. Calls out current attacks against voter freedoms including voter purging, gerrymandering, and voter ID laws. Photographs, sidebars, and a glossary are interspersed throughout the book.