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PROJECT HISTORY LINKS, The Beginning of the Women's Rights Movement
History | Primary Sources | Videos | Books | Teacher Resources
History of the Movement
The History of the Suffrage Movement By Marjorie Spruill Wheeler. From PBS's "The American Experience."
Women in American History by the Encyclopedia Britannica has biographies of important women including:
Susan B. Anthony
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Spartacus SchoolNet has articles on:
Women's Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Susan Anthony
Women Win the Vote Profiles of leaders, timeline of events, and articles on the women's suffrage movement. From the Women's Studies Database at the University of Maryland.
Women's Rights National Historical Park Information on the women's movement from the National Park Service.
Primary Sources
Votes for Women: Selections From the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection Huge collection from the Library of Congress.
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1775-2000 Collection of primary source documents from the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Books
Women in 19th Century America by Fiona MacDonald
Women of the Suffrage Movement by Lydia D. Bjornlund
They Shall Be Heard: Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Kate Connell
Forward into Light: The Struggle for Woman's Suffrage edited by Madeleine Meyers
The Fight for Women's Right to Vote in American History by Carol Rust Nash
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Right Is Ours by Harriet Sigerman
An Unfinished Battle: American Women 1848-1865 by Harriet Sigerman
Angelina Grimke: Voice of Abolition by Ellen H. Todras
Sisters Against Slavery: A Story About Sarah and Angelina Grimke by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Susan B. Anthony by Barbara Weisberg
Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words by Lynn Sherr
Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights by Helen Albee Monsell
Videos
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony A Ken Burn's Film for PBS.
Teacher Resources
Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
From the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration.
Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Petition of Amelia Bloomer Regarding Suffrage in the West From the U.S. National Archives & Records Administration.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 Primary source documents, lesson ideas, and links. A project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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