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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: A Strong Comeback

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the women's suffrage movement--as well as the opposition--in Texas in the early 1910s. Read about the formation of the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, and check out information on Pauline Kleiber Wells, a Texas...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: c.b. Randell to Erminia Folsom, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
Choice Boswell Randell, who ran for Senate in 1912, was outspoken against women's suffrage. Read a letter in which he "exposes a common argument in the South against women's suffrage." Includes images of the original letter and...
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This short biography focuses on Lucy Stone's leadership in the suffrage movement and her role in attracting Susan B. Anthony to the movement.
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Other

Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities: Lucy Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
This well-written biography describes Lucy Stones life as a reformer, leader and orator in both the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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Other

Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
The Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Project raised funds and commissioned a statue in Sojourner Truth's honor in Florence, Massachusetts. This resource gives information about her and describes the evolution of the project. Links for...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Nawsa Collection: Carrie Chapman Catt

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, leader of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Includes information on important dates, life events.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site provides a brief biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the first leaders of the American women's rights movement. Read on to learn about her family life, education, and partnership with Susan B. Anthony.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Was Hard Fight to Get Vote

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module that begins with the 1920 article "Was Hard Fight to Get Vote" by The Barre Daily Times, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Teachers: Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary sources reveal the true resistance suffragists faced as they fought for women's right to vote. Through this collection of lessons, students will "understand the societal role of women from 1840 to 1920" and explore the history of...
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Fight for the Nineteenth: The Fight for Women's Suffrage

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of the movement to obtain equal rights for women, starting with the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, up to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, when women won the right to vote.
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 3rd - 8th
There was a time in the United States when voting was only for white men who owned property. This Library of Congress site tells you about the days when American women fought for their right to vote. Includes high quality historic images.
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Women's Suffrage: Campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This set of primary sources uses photos, advertisements, maps, and other documents to shed light on that struggle toward the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes a teacher's guide.
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Other

Timeline of Women's Suffrage in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a detailed timeline of events relating to women's rights and suffrage from 1776 to the passing of the 19th Amendment. Link to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
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Other

Blue Shoe Guide: The Nineteenth Amendment & the War of the Roses

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides historical and biographical information about the fight in Tennessee to ratify the 19th Amendment.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Movement Comes of Age: Carrie Chapman Catt (Portrait)

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist who briefly served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Handout
National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Lucretia Mott

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers a brief biography on the life of Quaker abolitionist and women's rights advocate, Lucretia Mott.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Votes for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of resource information such as pamphlets, memorials, and scrapbooks supporting women's rights and suffrage. Also a time line of one hundred years toward suffrage.