Biography
Elizabeth Freeman
Elizabeth Freeman became the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit for freedom in the state of Massachusetts.
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Biography
Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman soared across the sky as the first African American, and the first Native American woman pilot.
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Biography
General
Brief Overview of Protest Songs
In the United States, the tradition of protest songs dates to pre-Revolutionary War and flourished during the war.
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Lesson Plan
Introduction to Activism
This lesson takes a closer look at one of key activists in the women’s’, workers’ and immigrants’ rights movement in the 20th century.
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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
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Lesson Plan
Country to City
Through exploring primary source materials and classroom discussion, students will gain a richer understanding of the Industrial Revolution’s impact on the evolving roles of women in 19th century America, with particular focus on New England.
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Biography
Ethel L. Payne
Ethel Payne is known as the First Lady of the Black Press, because of her fearlessness as a journalist and a Civil Rights activist.
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Biography
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the senior US Representative from Florida, the first Latina elected to the US Congress, and the first Republican in congress to publicly support the passage of the Marriage Equality Act.
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Video
The 1977 National Women's Conference
A National History Day performance by Catherine Boyette, Grace Amantea, and Laura Shelton, Henderson Middle School. The performance won the Women's History prize in 2018.
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General
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
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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.
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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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Primary Source
Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment
Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment from Ellen F. Vanderbilt
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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.
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Lesson Plan
Tea with Penelope
Students will analyze and evaluate the meaning, value, and message of the political cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, North Carolina, October 25, 1774.
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The Road to Suffrage
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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Inventive Women - Part 1
Students will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
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Inventive Women - Part 2
Students will examine The Declaration of Sentiments from the perspective of its call for women’s economic equality.
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