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Gloria Steinem’s Ancestry and Women’s Rights Movements: Lesson Plan | Finding Your Roots

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Introduce class members to Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, activist, writer, and lecturer Gloria Steinem with a PBS resource that not only investigates Steinem's ancestry but also encourages learners to trace their own.

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Concepts
women's rights, women's history, women's history month, women's movements, women's suffrage, the voting rights act, voting, voting rights, equal rights, feminism
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Have groups investigate and report on Steinem's arguments for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment as well as the views of Phyllis Schlafly who lead the opposition to the passage
Classroom Considerations
  • The support materials, including teaching tips and links to related articles, may be downloaded and printed
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  • Links connect students with the Finding Your roots project
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