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Understanding equal rights

2014
Explains the importance and history of equal rights in the United States, and examines rights with respect to women, African Americans, other racial minorities, and LGBT individuals.

Understanding your right to vote

2012
Provides information about the Bill of Rights, focusing on the Fifteenth Amendment which addresses the right to vote, discussing actions to give African-Americans, women, and young people the right to vote, and looking over struggles to enforce voting rights.

Amendment XV

race and the right to vote
2009
Explore the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States through primary and secondary sources, both historical and contemporary. Includes black-and-white photographs.

The right to vote

2001
Discusses the constitutional right of American citizens to vote, and examines the struggles of African-Americans, women, and young people to win the right to vote.

Right to vote

2005
Presents a concise study on voting rights in American beginning with the Revolutionary War, and explores several issues in history including the struggles by African and Native Americans and women, national elections, electronic ballots and voting technology, and much more.

Voting

2008
Describes the history of voting in the U.S., including women's struggle to gain the right to vote, and discusses how U.S. elections work.

The right to vote

1997
Explores the basic right to vote for government officials as it is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, highlighting the various restraints that were put on African Americans and women in the past.

Your right to vote

2000
Text and photos explain the American election process, from the pre-primary stage through the electoral college vote, and discuss the importance of voting and the purpose of political parties.

Great women of the suffrage movement

2006
Presents a history of the women's suffrage movement, and examines the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, suffrage leaders including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and others, and the nineteenth amendment which gave women the right to vote.

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