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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Highlights her accomplishments as well as her involvement with the women's rights movement.
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PBS

Pbs: Resources for the Study of Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Reformers

For Students 9th - 10th
The developers "Not For Ourselves Alone," a PBS documentary about the lives and work of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, have compiled a collection of resources useful to any study of the history of women's suffrage in...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute: History Now: Historian's Perspective: Winning the Vote: History of Voting Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition to u.s. Senate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Take a look at a 1917 anti-suffrage petition submitted to Congress by the Anti-Suffrage Party of New York that this site provides from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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Other

Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project: About Lucretia Coffin Mott

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains biographical information about Lucretia Mott and also contains a chronology of her life.
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Other

Sweet Briar College: Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Sweet Briar College is the text of a speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1867 on the first anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association. In the speech, she focuses on the premise that suffrage is a...
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Other

U.s. History Timeline: 1865 1900

For Students 9th - 10th
A thumbnail look at the many things occurring in the United States in the last half half of the 19th century. The topics covered are Gilded Age Politics, the "New Imperialism," Industrial America, Growth of Labor, Urbanization,...
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PBS

Iowa Pathways: The Fight for Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
The fight to give women the right to vote was fought in the states as much as at the federal level. Read about the history of women's suffrage in Iowa from 1868 until the adoption of the 19th Amendment.
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Chicago History Museum

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Women's Trade Union League

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Chicago branch of the Women's Trade Union League and its alliance between women workers and upper-class women who supported their cause.
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Virginia History Series

Virginia History Series: Virginia State History 20th Century (1900 1920) [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
Delve into Virginia's pivotal role in America's early 20th century through this slideshow. Students can visualize WWI, Virginia's naval bases, and other events such as the suffrage movement and prohibition in Virginia. The slideshow...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Woman Suffrage Timeline (1840 1920)

For Students 9th - 10th
A chronological timeline of important events and notable women in the American Suffrage Movement.
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University of California

The History Project: Ideas and Strategies of the Woman Suffrage Movement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The campaign for woman suffrage in the U.S. began with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Sixty years later, however, women could vote in only four states: Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. In 1910 the state of Washington voted nearly...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Political Culture and Imagery of Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the woman's suffrage movement in America (1840-1920), with an emphasis on the banners, ribbons, pamphlets, posters and other kinds of visuals produced by proponents of voting rights.
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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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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: American Women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a fiery advocate for women's rights. Read an account of her actions and see a portrait of her painted by American artist, Anna Klumpke.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Frederick Douglass [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Frederick Douglass on Women's Suffrage," a one page, non-fiction, reading passage, is an excerpt from a persuasive speech delivered by Frederick Douglass to the International Council of Women in Washington, D.C., April 1888 in support...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: The Petticoat Lobby

For Students 9th - 10th
After women were given the right to vote, the Texas Equal Suffrage League became the Texas League of Women Voters. This page provides a good introduction to the activities of the League, then and now, and also has information on the...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: League of Women Voters, 1923 Report

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an 11-page report written by Jessie Daniel Ames, the president of the Texas League of Women Voters, which details the founding of the League of Women Voters and their activities following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: e.l. Dohoney to Erminia Folsom, Dec 20, 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about E.L. Dahoney, a prohibitionist in favor of women's suffrage, and read a letter in which he ties together the two causes he supported.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: A New Kind of Father, a New Kind of Daughter

For Students 9th - 10th
After Baylor University and University of Texas opened their doors to women in the late 19th century, more Texas women had access to education as well as paying jobs. Read how this new opportunity for women as well as the formation of...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: Lucy Stone to Mariana Folsom, January 22, 1885

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a brief biography of Lucy Stone, "one of the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement," and also read a letter she wrote to Mariana Folsom, another suffragist. Image of actual letter is accompanied by line-by-line transcription.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: All Men Are Created Equal

For Students 9th - 10th
Women had very few rights in the early days of American democracy, and the right to vote "remained in the hands of wealthy white land-owners." Explore the early stirrings of the women's rights and suffrage movement in Texas. Check out...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: African American Men Get the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the ways in which the women's suffrage movement, after African-American men were given the right to vote, fell short. Read texts from this period of time.