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Women of Color and the Fight for Women's Suffrage InteractiveWomen of Color and the Fight for Women's Suffrage Interactive
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4th - 8th
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Social Studies & History
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45 mins
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Women of Color and the Fight for Women's Suffrage

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Introduce young historians to primary source analysis with a lesson that teaches them how to use a four-step process to analyze a photograph of a 1913 Suffrage Parade. Groups practice the process and share their observations with the class. To conclude the activity, class members offer reasons why they believe Black women were not included in the image.

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Concepts

women's history, women's history month, women's suffrage, women's rights, racism, civil rights, suffrage, the suffrage movement, suffragists, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, the nineteenth amendment

Instructional Ideas

  • If class members are unfamiliar with primary image analysis, model the process of how to use the four steps to analyze a primary source image with another photograph

Classroom Considerations

  • Groups require access to devices with internet connections

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  • Pupils can zoom in to focus on different aspects of the photograph

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  • None

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