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BL
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704189
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b526378
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| Title & Author
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Amendment XIX : : granting women the right to vote /\ Carrie Fredericks, book editor
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| Publication Statement
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Detroit :: Greenhaven Press,, ©2009
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| Series Statement
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Constitutional amendments : beyond the Bill of Rights
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167 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0737741279
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: 9780737741278
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-161) and index
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| Contents
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Historical background on the nineteenth amendment -- Voting rights trials -- Current debates on equality and voting rights
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The Seneca Falls convention / Frederick Douglass -- Post-Civil War struggles / Ellen DuBois -- The resignation of a legend / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- The "Night of Terror" / Mary A. Nolan -- Congress passes the Nineteenth Amendment / The New York Times -- Women finally get the vote / Associated Press -- The trial of Susan B. Anthony / Doug Linder -- Minor v. Happersett: the Fourteenth Amendment does not give women voting rights / Morrison R. Waite -- The National Woman's Party trials / Kathryn Cullen-DuPont -- The Nebraska Referendum of 1919 / James E. Potter -- The poll tax case : Breedlove v. Suttles / Pierce Butler -- Guaranteeing the right to vote / John Bonifaz -- The perception of women in politics / Gloria Steinem -- The Electoral College should be abolished / The Rest of Us -- The Electoral College should be retained / Kevin R.C. Gutzman -- Women are still not equal / Liz Wiehl -- The Amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- Court cases relevant to the Nineteenth Amendment
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| Abstract
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Discusses the historical background, legal cases, and current debate on and impact of voting rights on modern day life
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United States., Constitution., 19th Amendment-- History
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Women-- Suffrage-- United States
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Women-- Suffrage-- United States-- History
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| LC Classification
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KF4895.A96 2009
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| Added Entry
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Fredericks, Carrie
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| Parallel Title
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Amendment 19
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: Amendment nineteen
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: Granting women the right to vote
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