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The 1977 National Women's Conference
A National History Day performance by Catherine Boyette, Grace Amantea, and Laura Shelton, Henderson Middle School. The performance won the Women's History prize in 2018.
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A Short History of Activism
Subjugation, inequality, revolution and protest have marked world history for thousands of years. And for thousands of years, human beings have fought oppression and subjugation
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Lesson Plan
The Power of Words and Activism
Students will read the assigned biography and quotes to explore connections between activism and the power of words and ideas.
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Letter from the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association
Petition of the Cambridge Branch of the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Remonstrating Against an Amendment to the Constitution Extending Suffrage to Women
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Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment
Letter Regarding the Federal Amendment from Ellen F. Vanderbilt
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Lesson Plan
The Anti-Suffragists
The 19th Amendment did not come without a prolonged fight. Students will examine rationale for opposing suffrage through the lens of class, immigration status and race.
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Tea with Penelope
Students will analyze and evaluate the meaning, value, and message of the political cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies, at Edenton, North Carolina, October 25, 1774.
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The Road to Suffrage
In this lesson, students will use the Suffrage Timeline to explore the women, ideas, and action that led to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and discuss the Woman Suffrage Movement as a model for peaceful activism.
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Inventive Women - Part 1
Students will learn about female inventors and their contributions to American technology.
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Inventive Women - Part 2
Students will examine The Declaration of Sentiments from the perspective of its call for women’s economic equality.
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Political Cartoon: Uncle Sam embracing a Nurse
If You are Good Enough for War you are Good Enough to Vote
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Lesson Plan
Who Do I Admire?
Who are our real life heroes? Students will learn and write about inspirational women.
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Video
Katherine Johnson and the Mathematics of the Space Race
Katherine Johnson worked for NASA as a "human computer," during the 1950's and '60's. Her work as a mathematician sent astronauts into space.
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Standing Up for Change: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement
In the 20th century, African American women were integral leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Women Pioneers of Computer Programming
In the 1940's, the US Army hired six women mathematicians to operate the first electronic, digital computer.
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