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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Powerful Symbols and Words: Abolitionism & Women's Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This collection looks at an image and phrase used widely in abolitionist materials, and at how that symbol was adopted and adapted by Sojourner Truth and/or other women's rights activists. Students will examine an abolitionist medallion...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: Women's Rights and the Seneca Falls Convent

For Students 9th - 10th
The first women's rights movement advocated equal rights for white women by leveraging abolitionist and Second Great Awakening sentiment.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about Sojourner Truth, the outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sarah Moore Grimke

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Sarah Grimke who with her sister fought for abolition and women's rights.
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Other

Susan B. Anthony House: Her Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed biography of Susan B. Anthony provides sections that focus on her work as an abolitionist, education reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), a woman whose "Visions," led her on a crusade to preach of God's goodness, of the abolitionist movement, and of the women's rights movement.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Woman's Suffrage Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of women's suffrage with this interactive timeline.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sojourner Truth: Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Through two primary source activities and a short biographical video, students will understand the remarkable career of this persevering woman who lived up to her self-chosen name.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Angelina Grimke Weld

For Students 9th - 10th
Although raised on a slave-owning plantation, Angelina Grimke Weld became an ardent abolitionist.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Nineteenth Century Women: Struggle and Triumph Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Journals, letters, and narratives reveal a part of America's history not revealed in textbooks, the story of women, namely the women of the 1800s. With this lesson, young scholars gain understanding of women and history through various...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
See a sculptured bust and read a brief biography of Susan B. Anthony, foremost supporter of women's suffrage.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Women's Hall of Fame provides a brief biography of the famous abolitionist and former slave, Sojourner Truth.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Mary Ann Shadd Cary

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Women's Hall of Fame provides a brief biography of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an educator, abolitionist, editor, attorney, and feminist of the Civil War era.
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Other

History's Women: Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist Suffragist

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a biography of African American Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), born Isabella Baumfree in 1797 in upstate New York.
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Places Where Women Made History: Elizabeth Cady Stanton House

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of the life, and achievements of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). Tells how her experiences in the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House led to her role as an activist for women's rights.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This biographical sketch of Lucy Stone includes numerous links to related sites and articles about this early american feminist and abolitionist.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Mary Edwards Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Edwards Walker is the only U.S. woman to receive the Presidential Medal of Honor. She was a women's rights advocate, abolitionist, spy, and the first female U.S. Army surgeon during the Civil War.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
A leading suffragist and abolitionist, Lucy Stone dedicated her life to battling inequality on all fronts.
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Danuta Bois

Distinguished Women of Past and Present: Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Antoinette Blackwell was the first American woman to be ordained as a minister. She was a champion of woman's rights and lived to vote at age 95 after the adoption of the 19th amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account of the life of Sojourner Truth, an African-American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
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Stephen Byrne

History for Kids: Sojourner Truth

For Students 3rd - 8th
A concise biography highlights the life of Sojourner Truth including her role not only in the abolition movement but also for women's rights.
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Other

Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written biography describes Lucy Stones life as a reformer, leader and orator in both the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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University of Pennsylvania

Celebration of Women Writers: Narrative of Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" depicts the life of Sojourner Truth as dictated to Olive Gilbert in 1850.
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Black Past

Black Past: Ain't I a Woman?

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains parts of the stirring speech, "Ain't I a Woman," given by Sojourner Truth at the Women's Rights convention in Akron, Ohio.