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IDEAS FOR CELEBRATING WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY

 


EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY

These resources, compiled by the National Education Association, are intended to help students in grades K-12 learn about the suffrage movement in general and the 19th Amendment in particular.

  • Women Win the Vote, women’s history archive from Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. An overview of the suffrage movement, including brief biographies of 75 Suffragists (Grades 5-8).
  • Education & Resources archive from National Women’s History Museum (NWHM). Features videos, activities, interactive lessons, and quizzes highlighting the contributions of women to the social, cultural, economic, and political life of the U.S. (Grades 6-12).
  • Women’s Suffrage: Manuscript Division from the Library of Congress. Includes papers of the movement’s early pioneers, the daughters of that first generation, the women who made the successful push to victory, and records of leading national suffrage organization (Grades 9-12).
  • Women’s Suffrage archive from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Six historians examine aspects of women’s efforts to gain the right to vote (Grades 9-12).