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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: Abolition and Early Women's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
How was the anti-slavery movement tightly connected with women's right to vote? Explore the efforts of women abolitionists, who realized that "the injustice they wanted to remedy for blacks also applied to women." Primary texts at this...
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University of Virginia

Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: The Woman's Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the 19th century women's reform movement as well as primary resources including the Seneca Falls Declaration & Resolutions, an editorial by Frederick Douglass, and excerpts form "History of Woman Suffrage."
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Women's Clubs

For Students 9th - 10th
Read how women formed strong clubs and organization to strengthen the women's movement during late 19th and early 20th centuries. These groups not only endorsed women's suffrage, but also made way for the formation of the PTA, more...
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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...