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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the events that led to women securing the right to vote with the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Excerpts From Her Autobiography

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains excerpts from Elizabeth Cady Stanton's autobiography.
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Northern Illinois University

Illinois During the Guilded Age: Frances E. Willard, 1839 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to read interpretative essays and watch several short videos discussing the many facets of Frances Willlard's life including her work with the temperance movement and women's' suffrage.
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Other

In Search of Heroes: The Susan B. Anthony Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Read highlights on the life of Susan Brownwell Anthony covering information on her role in the abolition, temperance, and suffrage movements.
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White Pine Pictures

White Pine Pictures: The Reluctant Politician: The Story of Irene Parlby

For Students 9th - 10th
Irene Parlby, one of the Famous Five, came to politics reluctantly but determined to fight for the betterment of the lives of women and children on Alberta's farms. She fought to get them proper education, medical and dental care and...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of resource information such as pamphlets, memorials, and scrapbooks supporting women's rights and suffrage. Also a time line of one hundred years toward suffrage.
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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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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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Other

Victory for the Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the story of the suffragists and the contemporary status of women's rights in the current political scene.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"

For Students 9th - 10th
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
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Black Past

Black Past: Barnett, Ida Wells

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography details the life and journalistic career of African American women's rights activist Ida B. Wells Barnett.
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Historica Canada

Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource profiling Emily Murphy. As one of "The Famous Five", she became deeply involved in women's rights and politics and won the fight to have women declared as 'legal' persons in Canada. She was also Canada's first female...
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Social Studies Help Center

Social Studies Help Center: Individual's Impact on the Nation's Problems

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the impact of social reformers in the 19th century including women's rights, temperance, care for the mentally ill, and education.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Americans and the Great War 1914 1919: A New Home Front

For Students 11th - 12th
World War I changed the configuration of the workforce and organized labor took the opportunity to strengthen its power base. This section looks at the impact of these changes on women and African Americans, as well as how the women's...
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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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Other

Anarchy Archives: Emma Goldman's Collected Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the book "Anarchism and Other Essays" here on this site. Includes a biographical sketch of Goldman and several essays pertaining to women's rights.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the timeline of the history Civil Rights in the United States including major milestones in the African-American, disabled, Native American, and women's suffrage movements.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Women's Tennis Club at University of Texas, 1906

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a brief article on the history of women's sports in the U.S. along with photos from the women's tennis club at the University of Texas. Part of a larger exhibit on the history of women's rights and voting.
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Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Ohio State University

Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History (Lesson Plans)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two dozen lessons that focus on using political cartoons as primary source resources for teaching American history. Lessons cover a range of topics in U.S. history from the Civil War era forward and are linked to Ohio content standards.
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Digital History

Digital History: The New Woman

For Students 9th - 10th
Although women rejoiced in gaining the right to vote in 1920, the women's movement stalled during this time. Read about the problems within the movement and opposition from outside the movement.
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PBS

Pbs: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
Features detailed biographical information on women's rights leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Follow key events in the suffrage movement, examine historical documents and essays, and take a look at where women are...
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Other

The American Civil Liberties Union: Crystal Eastman

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the role and responsibility of Crystal Eastman in the Woman's Rights Movement in general and the suffragist movement in particular.

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