PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Discontent and Transformation
This lesson focuses on the discontent of housewives in the 1950's and the Southern Bell lawsuit for discrimination of women in the workplace. It includes a PDF lesson plan and two video clips.
US National Archives
Nara: Martha Griffiths and the Equal Rights Amendment
A good look at the way the Equal Rights Amendment moved through Congress. Find images of the discharge petition and joint resolution
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: 1968 Miss America Protest
This PBS article traces the history of the Miss America pageant protest by the New York Radical Women in 1968. The term "Bra burners," caught on due to this protest.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Women Who Changed the World: Women's Movement
Encyclopedia Britannica provides an overview of the women's movement, which sought equality for women and the changing of a male-dominated power structure.
Other
The Feminist Chronicles
A timeline of the Women's Movement for the years 1953 through 1993, covering Events, Lifestyles, Education, Media, and the Backlash.
Other
The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: An Introduction
Well-written essay that describes the conditions of American women and the early women's liberation movement. Links to many related articles, posters and interviews. Good resource.
Duke University
Consciousness Raising / Women's Liberation Movement
The text to this site is compiled from text, notes and comments from a speech by Kathie Sarachild on consciousness raising and the women's movement. Length and very informative, this is an excellent resource.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Developments in Democracy
Activity for high school students in which they apply Constitutional reasoning to explore the topic of equality for women and debate the necessity of an Equal Rights Amendment. Site provides comprehensive background and resource material...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Betty Friedan
Journalist, activist, and co-founder of the National Organization for Women, Betty Friedan was one of the early leaders of the women's rights movement of the 1960s and 70s.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Gloria Steinem
Biographical profile of Gloria Steinem, journalist, feminist, and passionate leader and spokeswoman of the women's rights movement in the late 20th century.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), proposed in 1923, has never been ratified. Activists seeking gender equality have sought its ratification since its first proposal but that dream fell short after the anti-ERA movement fought against its...
Curated OER
National Park Service: International Civil Rights Walk of Fame: Addie Wyatt
An intriguing biography on the contributions and experiences of Reverend Addie Wyatt during the Civil Rights and Women's Movements.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: The Women's Movement
Taking its cue from the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Movement gained momentum throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Women's Movement
An overview of the Women's Movement and the changes that took place during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
PBS
Pbs: Independent Lens: Sisters of '77: The Conference
The National Women's Conference, held in Houston in 1977, held discussions on a wide range of women's issues. Find out about those who attended, and find a list of the twenty-six resolutions voted on at the conference.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Women Who Changed the World: Gloria Steinem
A short but comprehensive bio and picture of Gloria Steinem, an American feminist and political activist.
PBS
Pbs: Half the People
An overview of the continuation of the women's movement - the spread of the ideas to mainstream America. Women were beginning to feel the freedom of equality. Read two interviews from women who rode the wave of change.
Other
Women's International Center: Women's History in America
This site discusses the social conditions in America that led to the Women's Movement, along with some women's world history.
Other
H Net Online: The Media and the Movement
Presented is a review of a book by Patricia Bradley that looks at the feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and its relationship to the media. Read about how the media bolstered the ideas of the movement by way of the activism of its...
Other
Roe v. Wade: Its History and Impact [Pdf]
Paper on the history of Roe v Wade and the constitutional right to privacy, the impact it has had on health, and the challenges the ruling faces.
The Guardian
Guardian: Mary Daly Obituary
An obituary of Mary Daly, an American radical feminist philosopher, and a feminist theologian, who died January 3, 2010.
Other
Aclu: Women's Rights
This resource contains a summary of the role of the ACLU in gaining women's rights in a variety of areas. Informative timeline is available.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...