Description
Author: Evette Dionne
Edition Year: 2020
Cover: H/B
Description: Longlisted for the National Book Award. Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept racial discrimination. 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 Coloured Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Julia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education.
Prizes: Long-listed for National Book Award for Young People's Literature 2020.
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