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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.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: National Women's History Museum: Parading for Progress

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession through Washington, DC completely changed the way protests were viewed and carried out by the American public.
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International Museum of Women: Women, Power and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
An online museum exhibition organized around nine themes related to women, power and politics. Learn how women around the world have, and are claiming, a place at the political table, what forces have tried to keep them away, and where...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the 19th century.
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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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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Anti Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Why would a woman be against women's suffrage? Read about the common "fears and emotions" held by Texas women opposing the movement. Also, learn about Joe Bailey, a Texas senator who opposed women's suffrage, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Women Suffrage in the Progressive Era

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of women's suffrage during the Progressive Era with links to documents of the time primarily supporting women's right to vote although there is some documentaion of opposition also.
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US National Archives

National Archives: Extending Suffrage to Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The passage of the 15th Amendment sparked the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will analyze documents pertaining to the Suffrage Movement such as letters from prominent suffragists, anti-suffrage postcards, photos from parades, and...
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Austin Public Library: Austin Treasures: Jane Mc Callum and the Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibition of the women's suffrage movement, with a focus on the Austin Suffrage Association and Jane McCallum, a suffragist leader. Includes many primary documents, photos, and letters from the Jane Y. McCallum Papers stored...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Black Women and Their Role in Women's Suffrage

For Students 11th - 12th
This lesson seeks to explore the role of Black women in the Women's Suffrage Movement and their exclusion from the generally accepted Women's Suffrage narrative.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Voting Rights for Women: Pro and Anti Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website from EDSITEment has a lesson plan that examines the push and pushback for voting rights for women. Using primary sources such as political cartoons and letters, find out why people were opposed to universal suffrage, and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Women's Suffrage

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Find out about women's suffrage not only in the United States, but around the world. An interactive map displays the dates women gained their right to vote.
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Limited Voting Rights for Women Approved in Nebraska

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the events leading to women gaining the right to vote in Nebraska.
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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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Library of Congress

Loc: National Women Suffrage Association Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This vast collection houses a timeline of women's suffrage, from 1848-1921, along with information on leaders in the movement and images of original documents.
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The Guardian

Guardian: A Timeline of Women's Right to Vote Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: The Road to Suffrage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.
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National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Timeline: Woman Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn more about the suffrage movement with this interactive timeline.
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University of Pennsylvania

Celebration of Women Writers: English Laws for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Electronic text of the 1854 document, "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century" written by Caroline Norton. Part of a collection of works by women.
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A&E Television

History.com: Women's History Month

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site that delves into the history of women's suffrage and the famous women that we celebrate that helped to change history.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Progressive Movement: New Voices for Women and African Americans

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines how the women's rights movement began and how it evolved over time, followed by a look at the development of the African American civil rights movement and the different leaders that emerged during the Progressive Era.

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