Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This middle school instructional activity focuses on the women's suffrage movement. Provided is detailed background information followed by excerpts from eleven early twentieth-century primary source documents, along with questions to...
Website
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Legal Staus of Women in Texas, 1909

For Students 9th - 10th
Suffragist Mrs. W.B. Wynne published "The Legal Status of Woman in Texas" as part of her fight for women's rights. Check out images of the original document, a portrait of Wynne, and a brief commentary.
Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set illustrates the New Woman movement's ideals, the women who embraced it, and a society made uncomfortable by this seismic shift in the roles of men and women.