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.