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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality
Teach the history of Civil Rights using this comprehensive learning module. Trace the movement from the 14th Amendment to modern times. The focus is on African American rights but also touches on women and disabled American's rights....
University of Texas at Austin
Philosophy of Law: Discrimination and the 14th Amendment
This page is an outline of a college lecture that carefully explains the phrasing and interpretations of the 14th Amendment.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment/lessons
This National Archives and Records Administration site briefly discusses the background of the 19th Amendment and offers primary sources, activities, and links to related web sited for educators and students.
Other
Alice Paul Institute: Alice Paul: Feminist, Suffragist, and Political Strategist
Read a detailed biography of Alice Paul, tireless champion for women's suffrage, the 19th amendment, and an Equal Rights Amendment.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Women's Rights
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of women's rights in the United States.
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.
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.
Thomson Reuters
Find Law: u.s. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment
Presents the Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection. Includes a lengthy list of annotations to the Amendment.
US National Archives
Nara: Teaching With Documents: Ratification of the 19th Amendment, Tennessee
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.
Other
University of Michigan: Susan B. Anthony House: Susan B. Anthony
This resource divides her life into the following parts: abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights campaigner.
Other
Encyclopedia Virginia: Civil Rights Act of 1964
A detailed look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964, paying particular attention to how Virginia Representative Howard W. Smith added an amendment intended to kill the act by making it cover gender discrimination as well as racial. Read...
Other
Blue Shoe Guide: The Nineteenth Amendment & the War of the Roses
This site provides historical and biographical information about the fight in Tennessee to ratify the 19th Amendment.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Classroom: Fourteenth Amendment
Text and brief description of the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment. Links to related resources listed.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: The 14th and 15th Amendments
Information on the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments that helped to transform the women's rights movement.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Supreme Court: Expanding Civil Rights: Brown v. Board of Education
This is a detailed overview of the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education which held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Fifteenth Amendment
The documents, images, photographs, and articles in this set explore the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, responses to it across the United States, and its long-term impact on the struggle for equal voting rights. Includes a teaching...
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Moving Toward Equality Under Law
As new free and slave states were admitted to the Union prior to the Civil War, political divisions kept growing, despite attempts to balance the numbers of each. The South pushed for slavery to expand westward, while anti-slavery...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Political Culture and Imagery of Woman Suffrage
An overview of the woman's suffrage movement in America (1840-1920), with an emphasis on the banners, ribbons, pamphlets, posters and other kinds of visuals produced by proponents of voting rights.
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Equal Protection
The Amendments protect our rights; but in defending one person's rights, another person may be harmed! The Fourteenth Amendment is discussed here with all the ensuing ramifications of decisions made on Affirmative Action, Women's Rights,...
University of Maryland
Mith: Women's Studies Database: How "Sex" Got Into Title Vii
Interesting perspective on the ground-breaking Title VII. It includes much of the behind the scenes information on the passing of the bill that had such an impact on women's rights. Comprehensive description of the ERA's history, dating...
PBS
Pbs: Sisters of '77: Women's Issues Then and Now (Lesson Plans)
Two lessons that allow students to deepen their understanding of the issues addressed by the women's movement by comparing issues of the present day with those fought for in the 1970s. Best use of these lessons requires access to the PBS...
Other
Indigenous Corporate Training, Canada: Bill C 31; An Indian Act Amendment
From 1869 until 1985 (116 years), if an Indian woman married a non-Indian man, she and the children of the marriage were denied Indian status. In 1985, the Indian Act was amended by the passage of Bill C-31 to remove discrimination...
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: 14th Amendment to the Constitution
After the Civil War, the 14th amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States. This included former slaves. Learn about the protections this amendment offers to citizens, including those who were once...