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

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Lifting as We Climb details the part of the women’s suffrage movement most of us won’t learn about in school. While most of the suffrage icons we know are white, Black women were also at the forefront of the movement—not only fighting to secure their right to vote, but to be seen as equal partners by their fellow activists. This powerful account of their stories is an essential read for all ages.

For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle.

This Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book and National Book Award longlisted work tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement—when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.

Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Alice Paul. The Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls. The 1913 Women's March in D.C. When the epic story of the suffra...