Breaking Barriers

Biography

Coretta Scott King

Although best known for being the wife of famed civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King created her own legacy.

Biography

Daisy Bates

Bates' work with the NAACP transformed the Civil Rights Movement.

Biography

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

General

Freedom Summer

During the summer of 1964, hundreds of college students flooded Mississippi to register African Americans to vote.

Biography

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

General

Little Rock Nine

Imagine showing up to your first day of school and being greeted by an angry mob and the National Guard.

Biography

Maggie Lena Walker

Maggie Lena Walker was one of the foremost female business leaders in the US and the first woman to own a bank.

Biography

Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief was one of America's most popular ballerinas.

General

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Colvin and Parks along with other early protestors sparked a yearlong boycott of the Montgomery bus system.

Biography

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and set in motion one of the largest social movements in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

General

The Sit-In Movement

Being served at a lunch counter was normal for whites, but African Americans were not allowed to sit at lunch counters throughout the South.

Biography

Wilma Rudolph

Wilma Rudolph relentlessly pursued her dreams becoming an international track and field star.

Biography

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist.

Lesson Plan

Western Campaign for Suffrage

Students will examine why western states granted women the right to vote.

Lesson Plan

19th Amendment

Examine the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women voting rights.

Lesson Plan

Progressive Era Suffrage Groups

Students will compare the different Progressive Era women’s suffrage movement.

Lesson Plan

Propaganda and Women's Suffrage

Student will examine propaganda posters from the American women’s suffrage movement.

Lesson Plan

Seneca Falls Convention

Students will examine primary sources about the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

Infographic

Legislating History Infographic

100 Years of Women in Congress.

Biography

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first woman to represent a major party in a US presidential election, the first woman to win the Iowa Presidential Caucus, first, First Lady elected to the United States Senate, and the first female senator from New York.