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Voting Rights

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Suffragists Picketing at the White House

Lesson Plan

The National Woman’s Party

Students will examine documents to determine if the justice system fair and Constitutional in its treatment of the National Women’s Party picketers

Primary Source

Virginia Arnold holding Kaiser Wilson banner

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A Short History of Activism

Subjugation, inequality, revolution and protest have marked world history for thousands of years. And for thousands of years, human beings have fought oppression and subjugation

Lesson Plan

Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin

Students will explore the life of Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin by critically reading primary and secondary sources to determine her worldview and perspective.

Lesson Plan

The Power of Words and Activism

Students will read the assigned biography and quotes to explore connections between activism and the power of words and ideas.

Primary Source

Letter from the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association

Petition of the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Remonstrating Against an Amendment to the Constitution Extending Suffrage to Women

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Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment

Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment from Ellen F. Vanderbilt

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Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York

Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York to the United States Congress

Lesson Plan

The Anti-Suffragists

The 19th Amendment did not come without a prolonged fight. Students will examine rationale for opposing suffrage through the lens of class, immigration status and race.

Lesson Plan

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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