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PBS

Pbs: Not for Ourselves Alone

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, a companion to a PBS program, explores the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. With ample use of video and audio commentary, the site chronicles their work, their friendship and thus the history of the...
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Primary
US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Ratification of the 19th Amendment, Tennessee

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this National Archives and Records (NARA) site to see the original Tennessee document ratifying the 19th Amendment. Also includes a short explanation as to why Tennessee's vote was so crucial.
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Other

Smith College: Across the Generations:exploring Us History Through Family Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
The reform movement during the nineteenth century is explored through original documents. This site gives an overview of the social history of this time period.
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Other

D Archives: Alice Stone Blackwell, Objections Answered

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this 1915 essay by Alice Stone Blackwell, who outlines the basic reasons women should be granted equal voting rights in the U.S.
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Virginia Tech

Digital History Reader: Should Women Vote? The Politics of Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the prominent people engaged in fighting for woman's right to vote throughout Europe around the turn of the century. This unit provides circumstances leading to this fight, documents supporting the right, suggested writing...
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University of Pennsylvania

Celebration of Women Writers: Narrative of Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth" depicts the life of Sojourner Truth as dictated to Olive Gilbert in 1850.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: The Anti Suffrage Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Why would a woman be against women's suffrage? Read about the common "fears and emotions" held by Texas women opposing the movement. Also, learn about Joe Bailey, a Texas senator who opposed women's suffrage, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who...
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Historica Canada

Historica Minutes: Nellie Mc Clung

For Students 9th - 10th
Although a good synopsis of Nellie McClung's life is presented here, the highlight is the video clip, Nellie McClung. Using the clip is a great way to jump into a lesson about McClung or female activists in general.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Extending Suffrage to Women

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will analyze documents pertaining to the women's suffrage movement as it intensified following passage of the 15th Amendment that guaranteed the right to vote for African American males. Documents were chosen...
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Other

American National Biography: Carrie Chapman Catt

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed biography of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist leader and peace activist during the early 1900s.
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Primary
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Report of the Women's Rights Convention

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete proceedings of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention advocating women's rights.
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Other

League of Women Voters

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about important issues, relating towards female voters.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive information for high-school classes examining the history of women's suffrage and the struggle for equal rights as well as related issues that address such questions as: Are laws protecting women's rights still needed?...
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Other

International Museum of Women: Women, Power and Politics

For Students 9th - 10th
An online museum exhibition organized around nine themes related to women, power and politics. Learn how women around the world have, and are claiming, a place at the political table, what forces have tried to keep them away, and where...
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Limited Voting Rights for Women Approved in Nebraska

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the events leading to women gaining the right to vote in Nebraska.
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eBook
University of Virginia

Univ. Of Virginia: An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Full text of Frederick Douglass's "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage," originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, January 1867.
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Other

Susan B. Anthony House: Her Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed biography of Susan B. Anthony provides sections that focus on her work as an abolitionist, education reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary documents related to women's suffrage in the 1800s are presented here accompanied by teaching ideas. There is a script called 'Failure is Impossible' that was commissioned by the National Archives, as well as petitions, proposed...
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Petition From Susan B. Anthony to u.s. Congress

For Teachers 9th - 10th
See Anthony's 1874 petition to Congress in complaint against her arrest and fine for having voted in an 1872 election. From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
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US National Archives

Nara: Treasures of Congress: Progressive Reform Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this wonderful interactive site from the National Archives and Records Administration, to learn about the women's suffrage movement during the Progressive Era. See photos and primary documents related to the topic (click to...
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Other

University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
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Other

University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive site devoted to the life and causes of Susan B. Anthony.
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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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University of Maryland

Voices of Democracy: Susan B. Anthony, Is It a Crime for a u.s. Citizen to Vote

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Resource features the full text of Susan B. Anthony's speech along with an essay offering critical analyses, lesson plans for high school teachers, classroom activities, and suggested reading materials.