Women's Fight to Vote - 19th Amendment
Directions
The twenty example texts have been sub-divided thematically into five sections for more focused review. Your group is looking at materials which would likely be used to directly discuss the topic of the text set, women's voting rights, and focuses on historical figures who fought for women's voting rights. You can assume students will have previously been introduced to voting and election basics.
Potentially Relevant Standards from the C3 (College, Career, & Civic Life) Framework for Social Studies State Standards include:
- D2.Civ.12.3-5. Explain how rules and laws change society and how people change rules and laws.
- D2.Civ.14.3-5. Illustrate historical and contemporary means of changing society
- D2.His.3.3-5. Generate questions about individuals and groups who have shaped significant historical changes and continuities.
Within your group, decide who examines which of the four texts. (Note: If you have more than four group members, put multiple people on whichever text(s) seems the most complicated. If you have fewer than four group members, choose which text(s) not to review).
- Text 5 - Primary Source (Photograph)
- Text 6 - Non-Fiction Picture Book
- Text 7 - Non-Fiction Chapter Book
- Text 8 - Photograph Exhibition
After reviewing your text(s) reflect on the following questions and take notes on your thoughts:
- How is your text related to Women's Voting Rights, and more specifically historical figures who fought for that right?
- How does the text address issues of diversity, equity, & social issues?
- What would students already have to know or understand to engage with your text? What would students be able to learn from your text?
- How do you imagine using such a text instructionally when designing a unit on Women's Voting Rights?
Reconvene with your group members and report back on your text, sharing answers to the above questions. This verbally models the annotations you will do when constructing your own text set when completing the Integrated Multicultural Unit Reflection assignment.
- How could your texts work together or complement each other instructionally?
Be prepared to share out your group's thoughts with the larger class after reviewing this section of the larger example text set.
Text 5 - Primary Source (Photograph)
About this Item
- Title: National anti-suffrage association
- Summary: Photograph shows men looking at material posted in the window of the "Headquarters, National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage."
- Photographer(s): Harris & Ewing
- Created / Published: 1914
Harris & Ewing. (1914). National Anti-Suffrage Association [Photograph]. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/97500067/.
Text 6 - Non-Fiction Picture Book
Bold and Brave by Kirsten Gillibrand (TMC 920 GIL)
Book summary: Included are the stories of ten leaders who strove to win the right to vote for American women--a journey that took more than seventy years of passionate commitment. The suffragists included are- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Jovita Idar, Alice Paul, Inez Milholland, Ida B. Wells, Lucy Burns, and Mary Church Terrell. (Read-aloud: https://youtu.be/etujSeXv1N8)
Gillibrand, K. & Kalman, M. (2018). Bold & brave: Ten heroes who won women the right to vote. Alfred A. Knopf.
Text 7 - Non-Fiction Chapter Book
Chambers, V., Ryding, P., & Booker, C. (2020). Resist : 40 profiles of ordinary people who rose up against tyranny and injustice. Harper. (pp. 38-47, 66-70)
Text 8 - Photograph Exhibition
More to the Movement
Exhibition Summary: The passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 did not guarantee full voting rights for all women—women of color especially had additional struggles ahead. Recent and ongoing scholarship has uncovered detailed and complex histories of African American women in the suffrage movement, but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color. The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars. To learn more and explore the exhibition, visit the Library of Congress More to the Movement Exhibition.
More to the movement [Exhibition]. (2019-) Library of Congress, United States. https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/women-fight-for-the-vote/about-this-exhibition/more-to-the-movement/.