National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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History's Women: Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist Suffragist
This site provides a biography of African American Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in upstate New York.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Egalitarian America
Comprehensive teaching unit on egalitarian America: Americans that demanded political, social, and economic equality in all walks of life. Learn how the civil rights movement and an expanding mass media helped to reshape a changing...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Ida B. Wells Barnett
Biographical account of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South.
New York Times
New York Times: Crossword Puzzle: Women's Suffrage
The New York Times presents an interactive, online crossword puzzle on women's suffrage. Upper elementary students can participate with some guidance.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Suffrage Plays
Suffragist staged plays to bring attention to the cause of women's suffrage. Here is a brochure listing the various "suffrage plays" that one could order from the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Suffrage Broadside: Why Women Want to Vote
Why do working women, housekeepers, mothers, teachers and other women want the right to vote? This suffrage broadside provides answers. Published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Afl Cio: Time for Working Women to Earn Equal Pay
This article discusses the impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in achieving equal pay for women. Links to related articles.
Black Past
Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: African Americans, Women, and the Gi Bill
Although the GI Bill was intended to provide benefits to all WWII veterans, African Americans and women who had served had difficulties taking advantage of them due to discriminatory practices at the state and local levels.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage
Amelia Bloomer was a prominent advocate of women's rights in the 19th century. She invented bloomers to replace the skirt hoop, in an effort to free women from much of their cumbersome apparel. She later used her newspaper, The Lily, to...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), proposed in 1923, has never been ratified. Activists seeking gender equality have sought its ratification since its first proposal but that dream fell short after the anti-ERA movement fought against its...
Library of Congress
Loc: One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An Overview
A detailed timeline of major events that occurred in the women's suffrage movement. Covers years 1776 to 1923.
University of Maryland
Umbc Center for History Education: Reshaping American Society
Using this history lab, learners will examine the impact immigration had on urbanization and the reform movements of the time, as well as the addressing the backlash to immigration by understanding nativism.
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation 1919 1929: A New Generation
Looks at the new morality that emerged in the 1920s. It changed the role of women and the perception of African Americans, the latter facilitated by the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on the music and dance of the Jazz Age. Also...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Suffragists and Their Tactics Lesson Plan
Learners work with two document collections, "Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures: 1850-1920" and "Votes for Women: 1848-1921", to understand how the suffragists changed the requirements for voting in America.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Lesson 46: Feminism Does Not Have to Be an F Word
The women's liberation movement of the 1970s is suffering a tremendous backlash and is frequently viewed as obsolete. Many young people feel as though feminism is irrelevant and sexism no longer impacts their lives. Through the...
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Historian's Perspective: Winning the Vote: History of Voting Rights
[Free Registration/Login Required] Historian-authored three-part overview looks at the history of voting rights in America, touching on all the critical moments in American history when voting rights were first denied then granted to...
Other
Victory for the Vote
Read the story of the suffragists and the contemporary status of women's rights in the current political scene.
Library of Congress
Loc: Primary Source Set: Women's Suffrage
A collection of primary sources dealing with women's suffrage.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Louisa May Alcott
Delve into the writing of Louisa May Alcott when you check out this resource. This site features links to lesson plans and activities for "Little Women" along with biographical information on Alcott.
PBS
Pbs American Experience: Carrie Chapman Catt
Biographical overview of Carrie Chapman Catt, a dynamic speaker, tenacious organizer, and powerful force in the women's suffrage movement.
PBS
Pbs: Half the People
An overview of the continuation of the women's movement - the spread of the ideas to mainstream America. Women were beginning to feel the freedom of equality. Read two interviews from women who rode the wave of change.