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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: A Fashionable Woman, Circa 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
After women were given the right to vote in 1919, other aspects of women's lives began to evolve, one being women's dress. No longer confined by the restrictive fashions of the 19th century, women wore dresses, like the one shown here,...
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: The Pankhurst Family

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Ibiblio.org gives a brief, yet very informative description of the Pankhurst family and their quest for women's suffrage in England.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: The Nineteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
After the "Susan B. Anthony" amendment was passed by the Senate, suffragists stepped up in order to persuade the states to ratify it. Read how Texas suffragist Jane Y. McCallum was part of that cause and about the opposition she faced...
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Alice Paul

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the accomplishments of Alice Paul, a radical leader in the women's movement for suffrage who preferred to directly picket Congress. She was the organizer of the National Woman's Party, and spent time in jail for her activism.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Texas Joins the Battle: A Haunting Question

For Students 9th - 10th
Suffragists in Texas attempted to have their voice heard. However, the issue of race often tore these women apart, and ultimately ended the Texas Equal Rights Association in 1896. Explore the words and strategies of this period's...
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Aftermath: League of Women Voters, 1923 Report

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an 11-page report written by Jessie Daniel Ames, the president of the Texas League of Women Voters, which details the founding of the League of Women Voters and their activities following the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906 CE), the reformer and political writer who, with the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Victoria Woodhull

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography of Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927), who supported many progressive issues, including woman suffrage.
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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.
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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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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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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Jeannette Rankin (1880 1973)

For Students 9th - 10th
This brief encyclopedia article tells the story of Jeannette Rankin who was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was involved in the women's suffrage movement.
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Northern Illinois University

Illinois During the Guilded Age: Frances E. Willard, 1839 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to read interpretative essays and watch several short videos discussing the many facets of Frances Willlard's life including her work with the temperance movement and women's' suffrage.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: Jeannette Rankin (1880 1973)

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a brief biographical sketch on Jeannette Rankin, a women's rights activist who was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), a woman whose "Visions," led her on a crusade to preach of God's goodness, of the abolitionist movement, and of the women's rights movement.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Elizabeth Cady Stanton

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of this famous women's rights leader.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Passage of the 19th Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University comprises a series of articles from the New York Times detailing the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in Congress and the battle to get the...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Susan B. Anthony

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed look at the life of Susan B. Anthony. Highlights her accomplishments as well as her involvement with the women's rights movement.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Women Suffragettes Visit t.r.

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Library of Congress archives, open this site to view an early film of women suffragettes of New York visiting Roosevelt at Sagamore in 1917.
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Kansas Historical Society

Carry A. Nation: The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit addresses this temperance advocate and reformer's life and times.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: Travis County Women Register to Vote

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the passage of the primary suffrage measure in Texas in 1918, women made haste to register to vote, because they only had 17 days to do so before the vote. Here is a group photo of Texas women doing so.
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Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The Battle Lost and Won: "Women Vote Under These Flags" Broadside

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting broadside showing flags of countries that allowed women to vote, and asking under the U.S. flag, "Why do not all women vote under the flag of democracy?"
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The History Place

The History Place: The Destructive Male

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the text to a speech by Elizabeth Cady Stanton called the Destructive Male. In this speech, given in 1868 by Stanton at the Women's Suffrage Convention, she gives her views on how males have...
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Other

Humanists of Utah: Lucy Stone (1818 1893)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief biography of Lucy Stone, famous for her leadership in the suffrage and abolitionist movements.

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