Women's suffrage myths and the lesser known women suffragists
“All across the West, women were voting by the millions before 1920," one historian says, adding a caveat: They typically had to be white, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/news/women-suffrage-movement-suffragettes-suffragists-color-ncna1168476
Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism
https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/celebrate-womens-suffrage-dont-whitewash-movements-racism
Figures in the Suffragette Movement You May Not Know
https://www.aclu-wy.org/en/these-suffragettes
“All across the West, women were voting by the millions before 1920," one historian says, adding a caveat: They typically had to be white, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/select/news/women-suffrage-movement-suffragettes-suffragists-color-ncna1168476
Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism
https://www.aclu.org/blog/womens-rights/celebrate-womens-suffrage-dont-whitewash-movements-racism
Figures in the Suffragette Movement You May Not Know
https://www.aclu-wy.org/en/these-suffragettes
Useful Links
http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/nwsa-organize
http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/org/national-woman-suffrage-association-nwsa Social Welfare History Project. (2011). The National Woman Suffrage Association. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved from https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/woman-suffrage/national-woman-suffrage-association/ |
Primary Sources
National American Woman Suffrage Association Records
https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association-records/ Votes for Women A Success. Imitation is the Sincerest Flattery!! "The Map Proves It." Map of the United States showing in various shadings states with full suffrage; partial suffrage http://www.crusadeforthevote.org/nwsa/zqk96viuupxjfymo9xps64dfotysnh Declaration and protest of the women of the United States by the National woman suffrage association. July 4th, 1876. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.16000300/ Constitution of the national women suffrage association http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/doc/constitution-national-woman-suffrage-association-and-note-susan-b-anthony-may-17-1874 Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment Primary Sources https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage |
Lessons related to women’s suffrage
Goal: The goal of this module is to provide resources and information about the history of women’s vote in the U.S. Looking at the women’s suffrage movement provides a framework for exploring the changing role of women in politics and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. The history of suffrage offers an opportunity to examine women’s roles at critical points in the nation’s history, and to think about the impact of women’s voting behavior on politics in our time.
Content: We provide activities and discussion questions designed to explore the changing role of women in society and in politics. The module includes ideas for developing lessons on women’s suffrage and integrating the issue of suffrage into lessons on US history and politics, and to consider the impact of full suffrage on politics and society today.
https://tag.rutgers.edu/teaching-toolbox/classroom-resources/lesson-module-womens-suffrage-in-the-united-states/
Lesson Plan
Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
This lesson brings together digital mapping and the Chronicling America newspaper database as part of an inquiry into how and where the women’s suffrage movement took place in the United States. Primary source newspaper articles published between 1911-1920 and maps from 1918-1920 are used to prompt student research into how women organized, the type of elections that women could participate in (did where you live determine when or if you could vote?), and the extent to which the 19th Amendment transformed voting rights in the U.S. This lesson is also part of the Smithsonian Learning Lab collection entitled Breaking Barriers: Women's Suffrage.
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/chronicling-and-mapping-womens-suffrage-movement
Lesson One - Analyzing Primary Sources
After discussing the definition and value of primary sources in analyzing an historical time period, students, divided into groups by time period, analyze sources using the Primary Source Analysis Tool to determine a woman's role in society.
Lesson Two - Changing Methods and Reforms of the Woman's Suffrage Movement, 1840-1920
Having determined the perceptions of women's roles in each of the three time periods, students analyze primary sources that outline the methods used and reforms demanded by the woman's suffrage movement in each time period. Students then put the information into the Analysis of the Woman's Suffrage Movement. Using the timeline, students also determine what historical events affected the progress of the movement
Lesson Three - Timeline and Reflection on Woman's Suffrage
Using the suffrage timeline, students will determine the major events and participants during each period of the suffrage movement and search the American Memory collections for sources to compile a Primary Sources Timeline. The culminating activity is a reflection paper by each individual summarizing the progression of the movement.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/womens-suffrage-their-rights-and-nothing-less/
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
Prepare a selection of primary sources that relate to this sample list of strategies used to achieve women's suffrage. Additional primary sources may be found in the collections listed after these examples.
Example: Create a political banner, design a poster, disobey the law to make a statement, draw a political cartoon, march in a parade, hold a convention, etc.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/suffrage-strategies-voices-for-votes/
Goal: The goal of this module is to provide resources and information about the history of women’s vote in the U.S. Looking at the women’s suffrage movement provides a framework for exploring the changing role of women in politics and society in the 19th and 20th centuries. The history of suffrage offers an opportunity to examine women’s roles at critical points in the nation’s history, and to think about the impact of women’s voting behavior on politics in our time.
Content: We provide activities and discussion questions designed to explore the changing role of women in society and in politics. The module includes ideas for developing lessons on women’s suffrage and integrating the issue of suffrage into lessons on US history and politics, and to consider the impact of full suffrage on politics and society today.
https://tag.rutgers.edu/teaching-toolbox/classroom-resources/lesson-module-womens-suffrage-in-the-united-states/
Lesson Plan
Chronicling and Mapping the Women's Suffrage Movement
This lesson brings together digital mapping and the Chronicling America newspaper database as part of an inquiry into how and where the women’s suffrage movement took place in the United States. Primary source newspaper articles published between 1911-1920 and maps from 1918-1920 are used to prompt student research into how women organized, the type of elections that women could participate in (did where you live determine when or if you could vote?), and the extent to which the 19th Amendment transformed voting rights in the U.S. This lesson is also part of the Smithsonian Learning Lab collection entitled Breaking Barriers: Women's Suffrage.
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plans/chronicling-and-mapping-womens-suffrage-movement
Lesson One - Analyzing Primary Sources
After discussing the definition and value of primary sources in analyzing an historical time period, students, divided into groups by time period, analyze sources using the Primary Source Analysis Tool to determine a woman's role in society.
Lesson Two - Changing Methods and Reforms of the Woman's Suffrage Movement, 1840-1920
Having determined the perceptions of women's roles in each of the three time periods, students analyze primary sources that outline the methods used and reforms demanded by the woman's suffrage movement in each time period. Students then put the information into the Analysis of the Woman's Suffrage Movement. Using the timeline, students also determine what historical events affected the progress of the movement
Lesson Three - Timeline and Reflection on Woman's Suffrage
Using the suffrage timeline, students will determine the major events and participants during each period of the suffrage movement and search the American Memory collections for sources to compile a Primary Sources Timeline. The culminating activity is a reflection paper by each individual summarizing the progression of the movement.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/womens-suffrage-their-rights-and-nothing-less/
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
Prepare a selection of primary sources that relate to this sample list of strategies used to achieve women's suffrage. Additional primary sources may be found in the collections listed after these examples.
Example: Create a political banner, design a poster, disobey the law to make a statement, draw a political cartoon, march in a parade, hold a convention, etc.
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/suffrage-strategies-voices-for-votes/