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Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage Written by: Claire Rudolf Murphy

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Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage Written by: Claire Rudolf Murphy

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This story is about a young girl, Bessie, whose brothers and father won't allow her to go hiking with them. When Bessie complains that girls aren't allowed to do everything that boys are allowed to do, Susan B. Anthony invites her to join in on a rally, insisting that women's votes will help change the world.

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Marching with Aunt Susan book. Read 67 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Not allowed to go hiking with her father and brothers beca...

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Heart On Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President Written by: Ann Malaspina

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Heart On Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President Written by: Ann Malaspina

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This story is about when Susan B. Anthony broke the law and voted in the U.S. presidential election. Because of this, Susan B. Anthony was arrested, tried, and found guilty.

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Heart on Fire has 84 ratings and 23 reviews. Christy said: On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony made history--and broke the law--when she voted in the U...

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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote by Tanya Lee Stone and Rebecca Gibbon

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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote by Tanya Lee Stone and Rebecca Gibbon

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This story is about Elizabeth Cady Staton and how she wouldn't take no for an answer. Elizabeth Cady Stanton always knew that women were not given rights equal to men, however instead of accepting it, she fought for women's right to vote.

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Elizabeth Leads the Way has 403 ratings and 99 reviews. Nadine said: I still read to my kids at night, even though they are both quite capable of reading...

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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? By Jean Fritz 

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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? By Jean Fritz 

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This story is about how Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke out for women's suffrage because she wanted girls to count as much as boys did. Elizabeth Cady Stanton teamed up with Susan B. Anthony to travel the country and campaign for equal rights.

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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz | Scholastic

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This is a biography of one of the first leaders of the women's rights movement, Lizzie Stanton. Her work led to the adoption of the nineteenth amendment.

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Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles by Mara Rockliff 

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Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles by Mara Rockliff 

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This story is about Nell Richardson and Alice Burke, two women who set out on an unmapped journey to spread the news with Americans from all across the country to support equal voting rights for women.

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Around America to Win the Vote has 320 ratings and 94 reviews. Danielle said: History, geography, and a whole lot of lovely yellow. A daring 1916 road tr...

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Elizabeth Started all The Trouble by Doreen Rappaport

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Elizabeth Started all The Trouble by Doreen Rappaport

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This story is about how Elizabeth Cady Stanton called on women across the country to fight together and demand women's right to vote. It took many years and many women using their words, actions, and determination before things began to change.

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Elizabeth Started All the Trouble has 253 ratings and 66 reviews. Melki said: An interesting and informative look at the history of suffragists and how t...

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Susan B. Anthony: A Photo-Illustrated Biography By: Lucile Davis

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Susan B. Anthony: A Photo-Illustrated Biography By: Lucile Davis

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This biography shares all about Susan B. Anthony and how she fought her whole lifetime for women's right to vote.

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Susan B Anthony has 10 ratings and 2 reviews. Amy said: Brief, simple, and informative biography of Susan B. Anthony. It follows the story of Anthony fro...

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Are posters, parades, protests, etc., effective ways to make your voice heard?

If you lived during the women's suffrage movement, would you be a suffragist?

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Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote by Dean Robbins

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Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote by Dean Robbins

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This story is about Alice Paul and her commitment to women's voting rights. She wrote letters and led parades and protests outside of the White House to encourage the President to grant women the right to vote. Because of her determination and the support she received from the President's daughter, President Woodrow Wilson was persuaded and urged Congress to pass a law granting women the right to vote.

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Miss Paul and the President has 145 ratings and 43 reviews. Leslie said: Miss Paul and the President is a lively, action-filled story that fills a real n...

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Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents: Woodrow Wilson Twenty-Eighth President by Mike Venezia

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Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents: Woodrow Wilson Twenty-Eighth President by Mike Venezia

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This biography shares all about the life and political career of President Woodrow Wilson.

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Woodrow Wilson has 11 ratings and 1 review. Shelli said: Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents by Mike Venezia is my favorite picture book series on the Pr...

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A First Look at America’s Presidents: Woodrow Wilson by Miriam Aronin

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A First Look at America’s Presidents: Woodrow Wilson by Miriam Aronin

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This biography shares all about President Woodrow Wilson's early life, his achievements as President of The United States, and some ways that he is remembered today.

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Woodrow Wilson: The 28th President (A First Look at America's Presidents)

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When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1913, the United States was a very different country from the one it is today. Women did not have the right to vote, and many children worked long hours in unsafe factories and mines. Wilson wanted to change things and work to help people who had few rights...

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Woodrow Wilson By Laura Hamilton Waxman 

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This biography shares all about the life and career of President Woodrow Wilson.

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Woodrow Wilson has 1 rating and 1 review. Shelli said: This is a nice collection for intermediate age students through junior high when learning about U....

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Who Was Woodrow Wilson? By Margaret Frith

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Who Was Woodrow Wilson? By Margaret Frith

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This biography shares all about President Woodrow Wilson from birth to death and how he handled illness, heartbreak, and the "War To End All Wars".

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Who Was Woodrow Wilson? has 59 ratings and 13 reviews. Natasha said: Baseball was new to Augusta. All the boys wanted to be on a team. Tommy was small, ...

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The Day the Women Got the Vote A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement By George Sullivan

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The Day the Women Got the Vote A Photo History of the Women's Rights Movement By George Sullivan

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This story shares a photo history of the major events that led to the nineteenth amendment, which grants women the right to vote.

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The Day the Women Got the Vote by George Sullivan | Scholastic

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This important, meticulously researched story of the Women's Rights Movement is packed with fascinating information and dramatic photos appealing to young reade

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist!: A Protest Movement That's Rougher Than You Expected by Fiona MacDonald

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist!: A Protest Movement That's Rougher Than You Expected by Fiona MacDonald

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This story helps to explain what it was like for women who were fighting for the right to vote and the awful things that they had to endure simply for speaking their mind.

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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist! has 59 ratings and 10 reviews. Kassidy said: This picture book goes through the stages and events that were put for...

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Mama Went to Jail for the Vote by Bonnie Christensen and Kathleen Karr

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Mama Went to Jail for the Vote by Bonnie Christensen and Kathleen Karr

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This story is about a young girl's mother who was arrested for picketing the White House and demanding women's right to vote.

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Mama Went to Jail for the Vote has 33 ratings and 7 reviews. Ms. Kelly said: Although it glosses over the horrors of jail beatings etc that so many suffr...

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If You If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights By Anne Kamma

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If You If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights By Anne Kamma

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This story explains all about how women won the right to vote. Women knew that they were treated unfairly and they had to endure a lot in order to become equal to men.

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If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights

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If You Lived When Women Won Their Rights has 42 ratings and 7 reviews. Brandy said: This is the kind of book that made me angry, but not at the book itse...

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The Ballot Box Battle By Emily Arnold McCully

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The Ballot Box Battle By Emily Arnold McCully

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This story is about a young girl named Cordelia who goes with Mrs. Stanton to the polls in an attempt to vote. Cordelia is faced with a challenge when she has to endure the outraged male crowd on the way.

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The Ballot Box Battle has 48 ratings and 14 reviews. Amber said: This book tells the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's attempt to vote in 1880 through th...

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I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda White

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I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote by Linda White

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This story is a true story about Esther Morris. Esther Morris started out as a girl who believed that she could do anything, and throughout her life, she proved that she could. The only thing that she could not do was vote. Esther Morris was determined to change that even if she was faced with many challenges.

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I Could Do That! has 184 ratings and 51 reviews. Anna said: I Could Do That!: Ester Morris Gets Women the Vote / Linda White/ 2005Genre: Non-fictionFor...

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Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency

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Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency

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This story is about Belva Lockwood, a woman who decided to run for president during a time when women couldn't even vote. Her campaign was difficult, but she remained committed and determined and because of that, Belva Lockwood gained the respect of many.

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Ballots for Belva has 95 ratings and 33 reviews. Lisa said: Excellent! Inspiring!I learned so much about Belva Lockwood in this book. She was amazing. ...

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This story is about a young girl named Ada Twist who has a passion for science and wants to become a scientist. Although science is a field full of mostly men, Andrea Beaty advocates for women in science.

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Fantastic book about a child who doesn't speak until she is 3, then goes on to look at the world and explore it very uniquely. Ada not being afraid ofFantastic book about a child who doesn't speak until she is 3, then goes on to look at the world and explore it very uniquely. Ada not being afraid of failure sends a strong message about the importance of having a growth mindset. Fabulous story! Great illustrations! ...more (less)

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Fantastic book about a child who doesn't speak until she is 3, then goes on to look at the world and explore it very uniquely. Ada not being afraid ofFantastic book about a child who doesn't speak until she is 3, then goes on to look at the world and explore it very uniquely.

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Not All Princesses Dress In Pink By Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple 

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Not All Princesses Dress In Pink By Jane Yolen and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple 

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This story proves that princesses come in all kinds. Princesses can play sports and make messes, play in socks that stink and jerseys that don't fit... all while wearing tiaras. This story will empower young girls and help them understand their importance and unlimited potential.

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This story is about a young girl named Grace who decides to run for president when she finds out that there has never been a woman president. Her opponent claims that he is "the best man for the job" while Grace focuses on being the best person for the job.

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This review was originally written for The Baby Bookworm. Visit us for new picture books reviews daily!

Summer Reading Day 82: Hey everyone! In the spirit of Women's Equality Day, today we read Grace For President, written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. In it, a little girl named Grace learns that there has never been a woman president, and decides that she will run for president someday. Her teacher decides to put together an election for class president, and Grace finds that...more

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This review was originally written for The Baby Bookworm. Visit us for new picture books reviews daily! Summer Reading Day 82: Hey everyone! In the spirit of Women's Equality Day, today we read Grace For President, written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by LeUyen Pham.

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This story is about a young girl named Grace who wishes to play the role of Peter Pan in her school play. Although her classmates point out that she can't play Peter Pan because he was a boy and she is a girl, she finds support from her family and realizes that she can be whatever she wants to be.

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Amelia To Zora: 26 Women Who Changed The World By Cynthia Chin-Lee

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Amelia To Zora: 26 Women Who Changed The World By Cynthia Chin-Lee

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The Doctor With An Eye For Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath By Julia Finley Mosca

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The Doctor With An Eye For Eyes: The Story of Dr. Patricia Bath By Julia Finley Mosca

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Do you think it was right for anti-suffragists to act the way that they did?

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This video goes in depth about Susan B. Anthony and her life as a woman suffragist.

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Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19 Amendment. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised this right for the first time. For almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting for women's suffrage: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The leaders of this campaign-women like Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Ida B. Wells-did not always agree with one another, but each was committed to the enfranchisement of all American women.
READ MORE: The 19th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906

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Perhaps the most well-known women's rights activist in history, Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, to a Quaker family in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts. Anthony was raised to be independent and outspoken: Her parents, like many Quakers, believed that men and women should study, live and work as equals and should commit themselves equally to the eradication of cruelty and injustice in the world.

Did you know? Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in a part of upstate New York that would become known as the "Burnt District" or the "Burned-Over District" because it was home to so many religious revivals, utopian crusades and reform movements: They swept through the region, people said, as unstoppably as a forest fire.

Before she joined the campaign for woman suffrage, Anthony was a temperance activist in Rochester, New York, where she was a teacher at a girls' school. As a Quaker, she believed that drinking alcohol was a sin; moreover, she believed that (male) drunkenness was particularly hurtful to the innocent women and children who suffered from the poverty and violence it caused. However, Anthony found that few politicians took her anti-liquor crusade seriously, both because she was a woman and because she was advocating on behalf of a "women's issue." Women needed the vote, she concluded, so that they could make certain that the government kept women's interests in mind.

In 1853, Anthony began to campaign for the expansion of married women's property rights; in 1856, she joined the American Anti-Slavery Society, delivering abolitionist lectures across New York State. Though Anthony was dedicated to the abolitionist cause and genuinely believed that African American men and women deserved the right to vote, after the Civil War ended she refused to support any suffrage amendments to the Constitution unless they granted the franchise to women as well as men.

This led to a dramatic schism in the women's rights movement between activists like Anthony, who believed that no amendment granting the vote to African Americans should be ratified unless it also granted the vote to women (proponents of this point of view formed a group called the National Woman Suffrage Association), and those who were willing to support an immediate expansion of the citizenship rights of former slaves, even if it meant they had to keep fighting for universal suffrage. (Proponents of this point of view formed a group called the American Woman Suffrage Association.)

This animosity eventually faded, and in 1890 the two groups joined to form a new women's suffrage organization, the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was NAWSA's first president; Anthony was its second. She continued to fight for the vote until she died on March 13, 1906.

Alice Paul, 1885-1977

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Alice Paul was the leader of the most militant wing of the woman-suffrage movement. Born in 1885 to a wealthy Quaker family in New Jersey, Paul was well-educated-she earned an undergraduate degree in biology from Swarthmore College and a PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania-and determined to win the vote by any means necessary.

While she was in graduate school, Paul spent time in London, where she joined the suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst's radical, confrontational Women's Social and Political Union and learned how to use civil disobedience and other "unladylike" tactics to draw attention to her cause. When she returned to the United States in 1910, Paul brought those militant tactics to the well-established National American Woman Suffrage Association. There, as the chair of NAWSA's Congressional Committee, she began to agitate for the passage of a federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution like the one her hero Susan B. Anthony had wanted so badly to see.

On March 3, 1913, Paul and her colleagues coordinated an enormous suffrage parade to coincide with-and distract from-President Wilson's inauguration. More marches and protests followed. The more conservative women at NAWSA soon grew frustrated with publicity stunts like these, and in 1914 Paul left the organization and started her own, the Congressional Union (which soon became the National Woman's Party). Even after the U.S. entered World War I, the NWP kept up its flamboyant protests, even staging a seven-month picket of the White House.

For this "unpatriotic" act, Paul and the rest of the NWP suffragists were arrested and imprisoned. Along with some of the other activists, Paul was placed in solitary confinement; then, when they went on a hunger strike to protest this unfair treatment, the women were force-fed for as long as three weeks. These abuses did not have their intended effect: Once news of the mistreatment got out, public sympathy swung to the side of the imprisoned activists and they soon were released.

In January 1918, President Wilson announced his support for a constitutional amendment that would give all female citizens the right to vote. In August, ratification came down to a vote in the conservative Southern state of Tennessee. The battle over ratification in Tennessee was known as the "War of the Roses" because suffragists and their supporters wore yellow roses and "Antis" wore red. While the resolution passed easily in the Tennessee Senate, the House was bitterly divided. It passed by one vote, a tie-breaking reversal by Harry Burn, a young red-rose wearing representative who had received a pro-suffrage plea from his mother. On August 26, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, making it law.

In 1920, Alice Paul proposed an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution. ("Men and women," it read, "shall have equal rights throughout the United States.") The ERA has never been ratified.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902
WATCH: The Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the foremost women's-rights activists and philosophers of the 19th century. Born on November 12, 1815, to a prominent family in upstate New York, Elizabeth Cady was surrounded by reform movements of all kinds. Soon after her marriage to abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840, the pair traveled to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where they were turned away: Female delegates, they were told, were unwelcome.

This injustice convinced Stanton that women needed to pursue equality for themselves before they could seek it for others. In the summer of 1848, she-along with the abolitionist and temperance activist Lucretia Mott and a handful of other reformers-organized the first women's-rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Some 240 men and women gathered to discuss what Stanton and Mott called "the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women." One hundred of the delegates-68 women and 32 men-signed a Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, declaring that women were citizens equal to men with "an inalienable right to the elective franchise." The Seneca Falls Convention marked the beginning of the campaign for woman suffrage.

Like Susan B. Anthony, Stanton was a committed abolitionist; however, she too refused to compromise on the principle of universal suffrage. As a result, she campaigned against the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed Black men the right to vote but denied it to women.

After the fight over the 14th and 15th Amendments, Stanton continued to push for women's political equality-but she believed in a much broader vision of women's rights. She advocated for the reform of marriage and divorce laws, the expansion of educational opportunities for girls and even the adoption of less confining clothing (such as the pants-and-tunic ensemble popularized by the activist Amelia Bloomer) so that women could be more active. She also campaigned against the oppression of women in the name of religion-"From the inauguration of the movement for woman's emancipation," she wrote, " the Bible has been used to hold her in the 'divinely ordained sphere'"-and in 1895 published the first volume of a more egalitarian Woman's Bible.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902. Today, a statue of Stanton, with fellow women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, stands in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
WATCH: The 19th Amendment
Lucy Stone, 1818-1893

Lucy Stone, born in Massachusetts in 1818, was a pioneering abolitionist and women's-rights activist, but she is perhaps best known for refusing to change her last name when she married the abolitionist Henry Blackwell in 1855. (This tradition, the couple declared, "refuse[d] to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being" and "confer[red] on the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority.")

After she graduated from Oberlin College in 1847, Stone became a traveling lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society-advocating, she said, "not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex." She continued her activism on behalf of abolitionism and women's rights until 1857, when she retired from the anti-slavery lecture circuit to care for her baby daughter.

After the Civil War, advocates of woman suffrage faced a dilemma: Should they hold firm to their demand for universal suffrage or should they endorse-even celebrate-the 15th Amendment while they kept up their own campaign for the franchise? Some suffragists, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, chose the former, scorning the 15th Amendment while forming the National Woman Suffrage Association to try and win the passage of a federal universal-suffrage amendment. Stone, on the other hand, supported the 15th Amendment; at the same time, she helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association, which fought for woman suffrage on a state-by-state basis.

In 1871, Stone and Blackwell began to publish the weekly feminist newspaper The Woman's Journal. Stone died in 1893, 27 years before American women won the right to vote. The Woman's Journal survived until 1931.

Ida B. Wells, 1862-1931

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Ida B. Wells, born in Mississippi in 1862, is perhaps best known for her work as a crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist. While working as a schoolteacher in Memphis, Wells wrote for the city's Black newspaper, The Free Speech. Her writings exposed and condemned the inequalities and injustices that were so common in the Jim Crow South: disfranchisement, segregation, lack of educational and economic opportunity for African Americans, and especially the arbitrary violence that white racists used to intimidate and control their Black neighbors.

Wells's insistence on publicizing the evils of lynching, in particular, won her many enemies in the South, and in 1892 she left Memphis for good when an angry mob wrecked the offices of The Free Speech and warned that they would kill her if she ever came back. Wells moved north but kept writing about racist violence in the former Confederacy, campaigning for federal anti-lynching laws (which were never passed) and organizing on behalf of many civil rights causes, including woman suffrage.

In March 1913, as Wells prepared to join the suffrage parade through President Woodrow Wilson's inaugural celebration, organizers asked her to stay out of the procession: Some of the white suffragists, it seemed, refused to march alongside Black people. (Early suffrage activists had generally supported racial equality-in fact, most had been abolitionists before they were feminists-but by the beginning of the 20th century, that was rarely the case. In fact, many middle-class white people embraced the suffragists' cause because they believed that the enfranchisement of "their" women would guarantee white supremacy by neutralizing the Black vote.) Wells joined the march anyway, but her experience showed that to many white suffragists, "equality" did not apply to everyone.

Wells continued to fight for civil rights for all until she died in 1931.
READ MORE: 5 Black Suffragists Who Fought for the 19th Amendment-And Much More
Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)

Born to free Black parents in Maryland, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was orphaned while she was still very young. She was raised by her aunt and uncle, William Watkins, an abolitionist who set up his own school, the Watkins Academy for Negro Youth. Harper attended the academy, began writing poetry as a teenager and later became a teacher at schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Barred from returning to Maryland by an 1854 law mandating that free Blacks who entered the South would be forced into slavery, she moved in with her uncles' friends, whose home served as a station on the Underground Railroad.

Through her poetry, which dealt with issues of slavery and abolition, Harper became a leading voice of the abolitionist cause. She began traveling the country, lecturing on behalf of anti-slavery groups, and advocating for women's rights and temperance causes. She also continued to write fiction and poetry, including short stories and a novel, Iola Leroy (1892), one of the first to be published by a Black woman in the United States.

In the latter half of the 19th century, Harper was one of only a few Black women included in the growing women's rights movement. In 1866, she delivered a famous speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention in New York, in which she urged white suffragists to include Black women in their fight for the vote. During the debate over the 15th Amendment (which Harper supported), she and other abolitionists split with white suffragist leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and helped form the American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA). In 1896, Harper and others founded the National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC), which advocated for a number of rights and advancements for Black women, including the right to vote.

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

Terrell grew up in an affluent family in Tennessee; her formerly enslaved parents both owned successful businesses, and her father, Robert Reed Church, was one of the South's first Black millionaires. After graduating from Oberlin College, she began working as a teacher in Washington D.C, and became involved in the women's rights movement. She joined Ida B. Wells-Barnett in her anti-lynching campaign in the early 1890s, and later co-founded the National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) with Wells-Barnett and other activists. Terrell served as the organization's first president until 1901, writing and speaking extensively on women's suffrage as well as issues such as equal pay and educational opportunities for African Americans.

Terrell joined Alice Paul and other members of the National Women's Party in picketing for women's voting rights outside Woodrow Wilson's White House. In her view, Black women should be dedicated to the suffrage cause, as "the only group in this country that has two such huge obstacles to surmount...both sex and race."

As a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP), Terrell remained an outspoken fighter on behalf of civil rights after passage of the 19th Amendment. In her 80s, she and several other activists sued a D.C. restaurant after being refused service, a legal battle that led to the court-ordered desegregation of the capital's restaurants in 1953.
READ MORE: A Timeline of the Fight for All Women's Right to Vote

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Women gained the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of the 19 Amendment. On Election Day in 1920, millions of American women exercised this right for the first time.

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This video discusses the history of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. http://readingthroughhistory.com/ The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees that no one shall be denied the right to vote based on gender. Why was this amendment necessary? How long did it take for it to become part of the Constitution?

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Cause and Effect of Women's Suffrage: 19th Amendment

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The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote, a right known as women's suffrage, and was ratified on August 18, 1920, ending almost a century of protest. In 1848 the movement for women's rights launched on a national level with the Seneca Falls Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Following the convention, the demand for the vote became a centerpiece of the women's rights movement. Stanton and Mott, along with Susan B. Anthony and other activists, raised public awareness and lobbied the government to grant voting rights to women. After a lengthy battle, these groups finally emerged victorious with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Women's Suffrage

During America's early history, women were denied some of the basic rights enjoyed by male citizens.

For example, married women couldn't own property and had no legal claim to any money they might earn, and no female had the right to vote. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood, not politics.

The campaign for women's suffrage was a small but growing movement in the decades before the Civil War. Starting in the 1820s, various reform groups proliferated across the U.S.-temperance leagues, the abolitionist movement, religious groups-and in a number of these, women played a prominent role.

Meanwhile, many American women were resisting the notion that the ideal woman was a pious, submissive wife and mother concerned exclusively with home and family. Combined, these factors contributed to a new way of thinking about what it meant to be a woman and a citizen in the United States.

Seneca Falls Convention

It was not until 1848 that the movement for women's rights began to organize at the national level.

In July of that year, reformers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York (where Stanton lived). More than 300 people-mostly women, but also some men-attended, including former African-American slave and activist Frederick Douglass.

In addition to their belief that women should be afforded better opportunities for education and employment, most of the delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention agreed that American women were autonomous individuals who deserved their own political identities.

Declaration of Sentiments

A group of delegates led by Stanton produced a "Declaration of Sentiments" document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, which stated: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

What this meant, among other things, was that the delegates believed women should have the right to vote.

Following the convention, the idea of voting rights for women was mocked in the press and some delegates withdrew their support for the Declaration of Sentiments. Nonetheless, Stanton and Mott persisted-they went on to spearhead additional women's rights conferences and they were eventually joined in their advocacy work by Susan B. Anthony and other activists.

National Suffrage Groups Established

With the onset of the Civil War, the suffrage movement lost some momentum, as many women turned their attention to assisting in efforts related to the conflict between the states.

After the war, women's suffrage endured another setback, when the women's rights movement found itself divided over the issue of voting rights for black men. Stanton and some other suffrage leaders objected to the proposed 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would give black men the right to vote, but failed to extend the same privilege to American women of any skin color.

In 1869, Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) with their eyes on a federal constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote.

That same year, abolitionists Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA); the group's leaders supported the 15th Amendment and feared it would not pass if it included voting rights for women. (The 15th Amendment was ratified in 1870.)

The AWSA believed women's enfranchisement could best be gained through amendments to individual state constitutions. Despite the divisions between the two organizations, there was a victory for voting rights in 1869 when the Wyoming Territory granted all female residents age 21 and older the right to vote. (When Wyoming was admitted to the Union in 1890, women's suffrage remained part of the state constitution.)

By 1878, the NWSA and the collective suffrage movement had gathered enough influence to lobby the U.S. Congress for a constitutional amendment. Congress responded by forming committees in the House of Representatives and the Senate to study and debate the issue. However, when the proposal finally reached the Senate floor in 1886, it was defeated.

Carrie Chapman Catt

In 1890, the NWSA and the AWSA merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). The new organization's strategy was to lobby for women's voting rights on a state-by-state basis. Within six years, Colorado, Utah and Idaho adopted amendments to their state constitutions granting women the right to vote. In 1900, with Stanton and Anthony advancing in age, Carrie Chapman Catt stepped up to lead the NASWA.

The turn of the 20th century brought renewed momentum to the women's suffrage cause. Although the deaths of Stanton in 1902 and Anthony in 1906 appeared to be setbacks, the NASWA under the leadership of Catt achieved rolling successes for women's enfranchisement at state levels.

Between 1910 and 1918, the Alaska Territory, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington extended voting rights to women.

Also during this time, through the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later, the Women's Political Union), Stanton's daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch introduced parades, pickets and marches as means of calling attention to the cause. These tactics succeeded in raising awareness and led to unrest in Washington, D.C.

Did you know? Wyoming, the first state to grant voting rights to women, was also the first state to elect a female governor. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) was elected governor of the Equality State-Wyoming's official nickname-in 1924. And from 1933 to 1953, she served as the first woman director of the U.S. Mint.

Protest and Progress

On the eve of the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson in 1913, protesters thronged a massive suffrage parade in the nation's capital, and hundreds of women were injured. That same year, Alice Paul founded the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which later became the National Woman's Party.

The organization staged numerous demonstrations and regularly picketed the White House, among other militant tactics. As a result of these actions, some group members were arrested and served jail time.

In 1918, President Wilson switched his stand on women's voting rights from objection to support through the influence of Catt, who had a less-combative style than Paul. Wilson also tied the proposed suffrage amendment to America's involvement in World War I and the increased role women had played in the war efforts.

When the amendment came up for vote, Wilson addressed the Senate in favor of suffrage. As reported in The New York Times on October 1, 1918, Wilson said, "I regard the extension of suffrage to women as vitally essential to the successful prosecution of the great war of humanity in which we are engaged."

However, despite Wilson's newfound support, the amendment proposal failed in the Senate by two votes. Another year passed before Congress took up the measure again.

The Final Struggle

On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James R. Mann, a Republican from Illinois and chairman of the Suffrage Committee, proposed the House resolution to approve the Susan Anthony Amendment granting women the right to vote. The measure passed the House 304 to 89-a full 42 votes above the required two-thirds majority.

Two weeks later, on June 4, 1919, the U.S. Senate passed the 19th Amendment by two votes over its two-thirds required majority, 56-25. The amendment was then sent to the states for ratification.

Within six days of the ratification cycle, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin each ratified the amendment. Kansas, New York and Ohio followed on June 16, 1919. By March of the following year, a total of 35 states had approved the amendment, one state shy of the two-thirds required for ratification.

Southern states were adamantly opposed to the amendment, however, and seven of them- Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia-had already rejected it before Tennessee's vote on August 18, 1920. It was up to Tennessee to tip the scale for woman suffrage.

The outlook appeared bleak, given the outcomes in other Southern states and given the position of Tennessee's state legislators in their 48-48 tie. The state's decision came down to 23-year-old Representative Harry T. Burn, a Republican from McMinn County, to cast the deciding vote.

Although Burn opposed the amendment, his mother convinced him to approve it. Mrs. Burn reportedly wrote to her son: "Don't forget to be a good boy and help Mrs. Catt put the 'rat' in ratification."

With Burn's vote, the 19th Amendment was fully ratified.

When Did Women Get the Right to Vote?

On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, and women finally achieved the long-sought right to vote throughout the United States.

On November 2 of that same year, more than 8 million women across the U.S. voted in elections for the first time.

It took over 60 years for the remaining 12 states to ratify the 19th Amendment. Mississippi was the last to do so, on March 22, 1984.

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This video shares a true story about the harassment, beating, and imprisonment that a group of women faced when protesting for their right to vote.

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Women Vote - "Night of Terror" (Women`s Suffrage/Woman`s Rights)

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A true story about the harassment, beating, & imprisonment of a group of women protesting their right to VOTE. VALIDITY HAS BEEN VERIFIED BY: SNOPES.COM http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/womenvote.asp Featured on City College of New York Graduate Student, Steven Terry, Project Site: http://picketingpresidentwilson.omeka.net/items/show/16 This video was inspired by a Chain Email received by Nicole Gratzinger.

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This video shares the horrific story of how Alice Paul was jailed, beaten, punished, and force fed, for protesting for women's right to vote.

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How Suffragists- And Their Foes- Used Media

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How Suffragists- And Their Foes- Used Media

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This article shares how suffragists and anti-suffragists used media as a tool during the Women's Suffrage Movement. This article includes a piece of propaganda used by anti-suffragists that was violent and demeaning.

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Anti-suffrage media images were often demeaning and violent. (from Women's Suffrage and the Media)

A new online archive devoted to media tools and strategies used in the U.S. women's suffrage movement has debuted ahead of November's 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in New York and as part of the lead-up to 2020's centennial celebration of the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment guaranteeing the ballot to the nation's women.

The Women's Suffrage and the Media online site, recently launched by New York University journalism professor Brooke Kroeger and the American Journalism Historians Association and hosted by NYU, is intended to help users explore how various forms of media messaging and strategies on all sides shaped the suffrage crusade.

Kroeger-author of the forthcoming book The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote, which profiles suffragists' male allies-said the arguments against the women's vote were plentiful: Leaving children in a non-mother's care was bad for children's development. Not being a full-time wife and mother threatened the stability of the home. Women, indirectly, through their husbands, brothers, and fathers, already had political influence. And extending the vote to women in the South would create a large class of black voters, with their own demands for major change. These arguments were often waged with the use of insulting and demeaning caricatures published in anti-suffrage newspapers and other media outlets.

Against these ideas, suffragists fought back with everything from letter-writing campaigns and speeches to pamphlets, leaflets, spectacles, plays, songs, and more, according to Kroeger.

"That's how," she added, "they changed the image of the movement from dowdy to more dazzling."

Kroeger pointed out that the easy accessibility of the material on the Women's Suffrage and the Media site will make it available to a wide range of users, from journalists to academics to schoolkids to an array of lifelong learners.

Linda Steiner, a University of Maryland journalism professor who researches gender and media, is one among researchers at about a dozen U.S. colleges who are collaborating with Kroeger on the project. For her doctoral dissertation, she studied 200 suffrage newspapers published between 1850 and1900 and devoted to topics including female employment, childrearing, political concerns, and "what women would do with the ballot once they won it."

"These are still really important lessons. [The online archive] shows that people really want to create their own news outlet, even if it doesn't make any money," said Steiner.

"I was impressed," she continued, "with how the suffrage newspapers helped women redefine who they were. There were different versions of those 'new women' re-creating themselves. Women who did work, who didn't take their husband's names, who wore bifurcated trousers instead of dresses."

It was a kind of defiance and shape-shifting that resonates in the present moment, the collaborating researchers said. "There has been a lot of discussion, even in the last election, about women in politics and concerns about inequitable treatment of women in politics," said Carolyn Kitch, chair of Temple University's journalism department and one of the project's collaborating researchers.

"Unfortunately, 100 years after women's suffrage was achieved, there are still major issues. And so there are current parallels all around us. This past is important to remember-and not just the actual achievement of suffrage but also the process, the struggle."

The suffrage movement's strategies "underscore the value and importance of media in any campaign for social or political advancement," Kroeger said. "This is especially apparent in [how] receptivity to the movement changed in what was the final decade of a 70-year struggle."

In that decade, the movement intensified its media efforts, she said. Clearly, in any era, how one uses the array of available media tools and strategies may determine the success or failure of a campaign. Though focused on the female vote, its proponents, detractors, and historical trajectory, Women's Suffrage and the Media also enables its users to glean what they can about the media's role in other justice movements and in politics, said Kroeger.

Cumulatively, the site's growing body of postcards, editorial cartoons, posters, essays, news articles, advertising campaigns, and other materials reflects "the power of media in changing hearts and minds-how people controlled media and what they did with it, what worked and didn't work," said Kroeger.

A cover of the pro-suffrage magazine The Woman Citizen

A postcard published by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (Palczewski,Catherine H. Postcard Archive. University of Northern Iowa. Cedar Falls, IA)

To Kroeger, a featured collection of 250 postcards is particularly striking. The cards, which include those crafted by suffragists and their supporters as well as opponents, in the United States and Great Britain, depict everything from a fictional woman preparing to whack a man with a rolling pin to violence that actually was actually committed against women during the movement. "That collection will knock you out," said Kroeger.

The site's founders say they are hoping people will not only access the site but also submit artifacts they have that are related to suffrage history, a story mostly chronicled locally, since suffrage campaigns were largely waged on a state-by-state basis.

For its part, the American Journalism Historians Association in April 2019 will issue a special edition of its journal, devoted to "original historical research on the role of media in and about the suffrage movement, work that illuminates lasting cultural, political, economic, ideological, and social problems."

"These moments in history need not be forgotten," said Kroeger. "What people sacrificed and went through and what happened ... being reminded of that is exciting if you're excited about history and its power."

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This article explains the strong opposition that some had toward toward allowing women the right to vote. Within this article is document that includes a petition to U.S. Senate Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York.

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Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York World War I, ca. 1917

By 1916 almost all of the major suffrage organizations were united behind the goal of a constitutional amendment. When New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson changed his position to support an amendment in 1918, the political balance began to shift in favor of the vote for women. There was still strong opposition to enfranchising women, however, as illustrated by this petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York at the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War I.

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This video helps explain how the expression "like a girl" has become an insult to girls everywhere. This video helps women break that stigma and feel empowered.

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This video helps explain that people limit girls and tell them what they should or shouldn't be and box them into expected roles. This video helps girls understand that they can do whatever they want and be whoever they want.

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This article explains feminism, the history of feminism, and women in politics. This article also provides several images of feminism throughout history.

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Feminism is a social and political movement. Feminism is about changing the way that people see male and female rights, and campaigning for equal ones. Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist.

There are many different types of feminism:

Some feminists believe that all genders should always be treated in exactly the same way. They think that people should not think that a person's gender is important. Often these feminists believe that the traditional idea that women stay at home and look after children is wrong and that men and women should share this job equally.

Some feminists believe that there are important differences between men and women. However, they believe that these differences should not lead to any unfair treatment of women by men. For example, they might say that some women do want to stay at home and look after children; however, they must not be forced to do this and must be paid to do this, either by a husband or by the government, as child caring is a full time job.

There are also many other types of feminism.

History of feminism

Women in politics

There have been women who have been involved in politics throughout history.

Historical

Esther, Lady Godiva, Queen Elizabeth, Catherine the Great, and Joan of Arc.

Modern times

Starting in 1960, there have been many women elected to high positions of power, such as prime minister. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first, followed by Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Elisabeth Domitien and Margaret Thatcher. Dame Eugenia Charles lasted nearly 15 years in the post, a record.

General history

Feminism started with the idea that human rights should be given to women. This idea was put forward by some philosophers in the 18th and 19th centuries such as Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. Later feminists in the early 20th century also said that women should be allowed to vote in a democracy. Many women felt very strongly that they should be allowed to vote and there were many protests. These women were called Suffragettes. This is because they were fighting for Universal suffrage which means everybody is able to vote. The Suffragettes staged many protests for their rights. After women received the vote, feminism worked to make all of society more equal for women.

Not all female politicians have been welcomed by feminists, with Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann being clear examples.

There are reasons why some people do not like feminism:

Some people do not like feminism because they think that women are already equal or more important in the law. Anti-feminists often say that society is also not equal for men and that women have more rights in child custody and divorce.

Some say that feminism wants women to be more important than men.

Some argue that women and men have simple biological differences, and thus cannot be treated in the same way. Some examples are: the treatment and role of women in the military and pregnancy only happens to women.

Some people do not like feminism because it wants to change society and it could make men have less power.

Feminism could give women special rights that would then hurt other groups and their rights. An example would be a fear that women would take away jobs normally done by men.

Images for kids

International Women's Strike, Paraná, Argentina, 2019

Octavia Butler, award-winning feminist science fiction author

Cmdr. Adrienne Simmons speaking at the 2008 ceremony for the only women's mosque in Khost City, a symbol of progress for growing women's rights in the Pashtun belt

Feminist suffrage parade, New York City, 1912

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Feminism is a social and political movement. Feminism is about changing the way that people see male and female rights, and campaigning for equal ones. Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist. There are many different types of feminism: Some feminists believe that all genders should always be treated in exactly the same way.

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History of Feminism in The U.S.: The First Wave

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History of Feminism in The U.S.: The First Wave

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The article shares how the first wave of feminism in the U.S. was the Women's Suffrage Movement. This article also includes pictures and videos from the Women's Suffrage Movement.

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After reading these books and having discussions about feminism in today's society and how the Women's Suffrage Movement was an early feminist movement, students will be creating a book talk. Students will have an opportunity to choose one book to spend more time on. Students will include how the text that they chose shows feminism, a picture of the book, and an emoji of their reaction to the book. This activity will give students an opportunity to become aware of what it means to be a feminist and different ways that feminists make their mark on the world, similar the the way the suffragists did during the Women's Suffrage Movement.

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During the week in which we will be focusing on the challenges suffragists faced and anti-suffragists, students will be engaging in the activity Mystery Photos. During this week, Mystery Photos will be used to promote student inquiry at the beginning of each day. Photos for each day will represent the challenges that suffragists faced and what anti-suffragists did to stop the suffragists. These photos will include propaganda, petitions, comics, etc. of the four sub-topics. There will be a new topic for each day. Students will work together in their groups to discuss the Mystery Photo of the day.

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After students read about some of the famous suffragists that fought for their right to vote, they will be adding a tile to the class Padlet. Students will choose one suffragist and write a brief description of their efforts during the women's suffrage movement that helped win the right to vote.

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After students read and learn more about feminism, they will be responding to a prompt using FlipGrid. Students will answer the question: What does the word feminism mean to you?

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Students will be creating a Wordle using a variety of different words that describe the nineteenth amendment. For example: equality, vote, women, President Woodrow Wilson, etc. Once finished, this Wordle will display what the nineteenth amendment represents all at a quick glance.

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Students will be choosing two suffragists that they read about and creating a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast their efforts in the women's suffrage movement. The will create their Venn Diagram using the online program Gliffy. This will emphasize the idea that suffragists showed their efforts in many different ways but still fought for the same thing.. the right to vote.

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Students will be creating a poster that they would have used if they were marching or protesting during the Women's Suffrage Movement. Students will be asked to include why they think women deserve the right to vote on their posters. This activity gives students responsibility as well as an opportunity to understand the actions that were taken during the Women's Suffrage Movement. These posters will be hung around the classroom once finished.

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Engagement #3: Letters To The White House

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Engagement #3: Letters To The White House

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Students will be writing pretend letters to the White House requesting that men and women are treated equally and have equal opportunity. After having discussions with the students about feminism and what women are still fighting for today, this activity will help students understand the measures that need to be taken in order to create change, the way that the suffragists did during the Women's Suffrage Movement. When the letters are complete, they will be displayed in the hallway.

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Students will be creating a multimedia poster using Glogster to share information about President Woodrow Wilson's presidency. Students can make a timeline of his presidency, highlight some of the important aspects of his presidency, etc. This activity will give students the opportunity to truthfully become aware of his accomplishments and successes during his presidency.

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After students read about President Woodrow Wilson and the nineteenth amendment, students will be participating in a mock election. This activity will bring awareness to just how important it is to have the right to vote and why women fought so hard for this right. To make it fun, students will be voting on two different treats that I could bring in for them: donuts or bagels. This activity will instill in them the idea that their vote matters and that without the right to vote they have no say.

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Students will be adding a tile to the class Padlet about the challenges that suffragists faced. Students will choose just one challenge that they read about to briefly describe. This activity will give students more time focusing on the serious challenges that suffragists faced from the anti-suffragists.

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Students will be using FlipGrid to record their reactions to how women were treated for fighting for what they deserved, equal voting rights.