12 Information Picture Books on Voting and Elections

Emmeline Pankhurst by Lisbeth Kaiser

A children's book on voting discriminations. As a political activist, Emmeline Pankhurst dedicated her life to the fight for women’s equality. She organised the suffragette movement in the UK and was instrumental in women gaining the right to vote. The book includes a profile of Mrs. Pankhurst’s life accompanied by historical photos and a timeline. Promotes activism, the suffragette movement, women’s rights and gender roles.

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Lillian's Right to Vote by Jonah Winter

Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, is determined to walk up the steep hill to her polling station to make her voice heard. During her journey she remembers the difficult voting history of her family. After the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment her great grandfather votes for the first time, she witness her parents registering to vote and she marched from Selma to Montgomery.

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The Teachers March! by Sandra Neil Wallace

Another book on voting discriminations. Reverend F. D. Reese was a teacher, principal and leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. He recognised the respect felt towards educators and organised a teacher only march for voting rights. In 1965, black teachers left their classroom to march to the courthouse to register to vote. The book includes an interview with Reverend F.D. Reese and other teachers, photographs and a timeline.

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Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford

Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of equal voting rights, but she had to overcome prejudice, verbal abuse and a beating which nearly killed her. In 1964 she gave a televised speech which prompted people to support the Freedom Democrats. Told in verse the book shares Fannie Lou Hamer’s life from her tough childhood, showing determination, courage and hope and to standing up for social rights.