Formidable American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020
Book - 2022
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. White women wanted to be equal to white men.... In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality"--
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- Published
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New York :
Pegasus Books
2022.
- Edition
- First Pegasus books cloth edition
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- xx, 507 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-484) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781639361892
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