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.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: Inquiries: Women's Rights
A comprehensive learning module on women's rights that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered include the women's suffrage...
Other
The Human Right to Freedom From Discrimination
This site discusses the "human right to freedom from any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on gender, race, color, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, political or other opinion, age, or any other status,...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Pathways to Equality
Explore the various reform movements American women participated in during the 19th century.
The Guardian
Guardian: A Timeline of Women's Right to Vote Interactive
Map takes a look at when women got the right to vote in countries around the world. Searchable by date or country.
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.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Women's Suffrage: Their Rights and Nothing Less
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...
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...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History:sarah and Angelina Grimke
Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a biography about the Grimke sisters, both Quakers and avid social reformers. They spoke out about women's rights and slavery.
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Student Historical Journal 1984 1985: Women's Rights Before the Civil War [Pdf]
Read an overview of the pre-Civil War women's rights movement in a student essay in an historical journal from Loyola University. Find out about specific activists prominent during this time period and learn about their attempts to...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Wake Up, America: Women's Suffrage [Pdf]
A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that examines the political and educational limitations women faced in early America. Students will describe early developments in the progression...
Other
Jwa: Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)
This site offers an interactive look at the roles Jewish women have played in the furthering of feminism and the American women's movement in the last half of the 20th century. You can access the information through a timeline, themes of...
Library of Congress
Loc: Women of Protest: Photographs From National Woman's Party
Find a collection of photographs from the Library of Congress that show the militant tactics of the National Woman's Party in its support of woman's suffrage. In addition to the photographs, there are articles about this branch of the...
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.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Beginnings of the Movement: All Men Are Created Equal
Women had very few rights in the early days of American democracy, and the right to vote "remained in the hands of wealthy white land-owners." Explore the early stirrings of the women's rights and suffrage movement in Texas. Check out...
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.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
Often the ideal and reality do not conincide for quite some time. That's true of the ideal of true equality between the sexes after the War for Independence. See why the end of the war did not bring indepence for married women, and why...
University of Missouri
Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Women's Fight for the Vote
Find out how women won the right to vote. Read a brief history of the women's suffrage movement and the text of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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.
BBC
Bbc: History: Women's Rights in Victorian England
Play this game to learn about women's cultural status in Victorian England, and learn about the progress of women's rights during the time of Queen Victoria's reign. Archived.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Mary Mc Leod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune was one of the most important black educators, civil and women's rights leaders, and government officials of the twentieth century.
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.
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....
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Pbs: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A program to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide brings together an information site where visitors can find blogs, social media feeds, celebrity and crew diaries, videos, and up-to-date information about the...