Constitution Day

This graphic novel series is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights.

An impassioned, cogent fusion of reportage, oral history, and memoir about a trial that fundamentally reshaped liberty and the South.
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A tightly focused insider's view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights.
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Placing local developments in a national context, Becoming Citizens illuminates the links between women's reform movements and progressivism in the American West.
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An evenhanded look at the women who fought "not" to vote.
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By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens. Mead shows that Western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of Western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by Western women.
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Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book explains the success and failures of efforts for woman suffrage provisions in five states and in the US Congress as the result of successful and failed coalitional politics between the suffrage movement and important constituencies of existing male voters, including farmers' organizations, labor unions, and the Populist and Progressive parties.
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