Title:
A woman in the House (and Senate) : how women came to the United States Congress, broke down barriers, and changed the country / by Ilene Cooper ; illustrations by Elizabeth Baddeley ; foreword by former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe.
Author:
Cooper, Ilene.
Publication Information:
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, [2014]
Call Number:
NONFIC HQ1236.5.U6 C667 2014
Abstract:
For the first 128 years of our country's history, not a single woman served in the United States Senate or House of Representatives. All of that changed, however, in November 1916, when Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress -- even before the Nineteenth Amendment gave women across the U.S. the right to vote. Beginning with the women's suffrage movement and going all the way through the results of the 2012 election, Ilene Cooper covers more than a century of U.S. history in order to highlight the influential and diverse group of female leaders who opened doors for women in politics as well as the nation as a whole.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 7.6
ISBN:
9781419710360
Physical Description:
ix, 134 pages : illustrations (some in color), portraits ; 26 cm
Contents:
"Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" -- Number one -- Next up -- Flash and crash, 1920-1930 -- Widows (mostly) -- ... and daughters -- Hard times: depression, war, and the red menace, 1931-1953 -- The women of Arkansas -- Stars! -- Settling down and stirring things up, 1954-1963 -- Carrying the banner -- Missouri and Michigan -- "A change is gonna come," 1964-1979 -- A different kind of pioneer -- "Unbought and unbossed" -- Joining Shirley -- Two good friends -- A woman of her time -- A possible Vice President -- Pacific state senator, prairie state senator -- The calm before the storm, 1980-1999 -- The year of the woman -- Maine -- two woman senators -- An unsettling decade, 2000-2010 -- From one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other -- The changing Senate -- Madame Speaker -- What goes up must come down -- and goes back up!
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