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mdevlin923's review against another edition
3.0
An eye-opening history of the long fight black women had for the right to vote.
A great introduction to the topic (especially since it's not covered in most history texts); but I don't think a lot of tweens will be picking it up to read it.
A great introduction to the topic (especially since it's not covered in most history texts); but I don't think a lot of tweens will be picking it up to read it.
becarnold's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
4.5
Great pacing, I just got distracted by the blurbs and forgot where I was in the timeline
ellenpederson's review
4.0
Lifting as We Climb is necessary reading for anyone interested in US history, and should be on the shelf in any collection where books on women's suffrage can be found. Devastating, frustrating, and inspiring...
It would be a solid 5 stars, but the format of mini-bios and other featured pages often broke up the main text, making it hard to focus. Still 100% would recommend.
It would be a solid 5 stars, but the format of mini-bios and other featured pages often broke up the main text, making it hard to focus. Still 100% would recommend.
picklespost's review
5.0
While I learned about the suffrage movement, I never learned about the battles fought by women of color. This is the kind of history you don’t learn in school but is so important and so interesting.
kmatthe2's review
5.0
A great book for YA and adult readers alike. Fills in many gaps in the dominant story of women’s suffrage.
glendareads39's review
4.0
Lifting as We Climb is an important book/audiobook on Black women’s roles in American abolitionist history. Evette Dionne does a great job of bringing to light the difficulties and atrocities Black women had to face up to the ratification of the vote (1919 and 1920) and then going forward into the civil right Era. It connects the past with the present with the issues with Black and people of color voters are still dealing with today. The work of Black woman leaders such as Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Amelia Boynton Robinson has been overlooked because of the color of their skin. I'm glad that these amazing women and their work are spotlighted in the book.
poorashleu's review
5.0
This was so good. I do not recommend reading it days before a huge election though.
thatsoneforthebooks's review
5.0
Even as a historian of the 20th-century US and race relations, this book provided a lot to learn from and reflect on. Dionne details over 150 years of history, showing the ebbs and flows of Black women's fight for suffrage rights, starting with efforts to secure abolition for enslaved Black Americans. The book also includes short bios of prominent women, lots of photos, and interesting primary sources.
From abolitionists to suffrage clubs to the suffrage march to the activism of Stacey Abrams, Dionne traces the long history of Black women to gain the right to vote, rights which are less than certain even today. This is the perfect book for a HS history or government class, especially to detail that not all women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment.
From abolitionists to suffrage clubs to the suffrage march to the activism of Stacey Abrams, Dionne traces the long history of Black women to gain the right to vote, rights which are less than certain even today. This is the perfect book for a HS history or government class, especially to detail that not all women gained the right to vote with the 19th amendment.
molly_dettmann's review
Please make sure this title is in your library and have it front and center on any of those 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment displays. Not every woman got the right to vote after it passed in 1920. This was a much needed read.