How does one carry out long-term change in order to better align institutions with principles of liberty, justice, and equality within a constitutional order? Votes for Women: The Story of the 19th Amendment explores the people, places, and events of the suffragist movement, inspiring students through the perseverance and courage of those in the movement.
The final lesson, a capstone project, provides several options to equip students to carry out their own project-based application of social change to address a community challenge. Having analyzed the history of women’s suffrage as an example of what can be achieved when people exercise such virtues as courage, perseverance, initiative, collaboration, civil discourse and direct action, students are encouraged to study their own community to apply those same character strengths to solve a local problem or to teach others about this important chapter in the American drama.