This collection of video clips, lesson plans, and primary sources details key figures, events, and regional movements of the decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. Students will encounter activists including Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Grace Abbott, and examine key regional efforts within the movement. Primary source documents offer evidence for a study of the chronology of campaign for women’s suffrage, from the movement’s beginnings through the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Review the groundbreaking strategies women used to give rise to the largest expansion of voting rights in American history in She Resisted: Strategies of Suffrage, an interactive audio/visual experience from American Experience.