A Pathfinder for Women’s
Suffrage
Focus:
1. Who were the most influential people involved?
(you should research at least 4 women who were
influential in changing society’s views of women).
What were their accomplishments? What were
their weaknesses or failures?
2. Why did women need a movement?
3. ]Why was obtaining the right to vote a driving
force among the women in this time period?
4. What other issues besides voting rights did these women tackle?
5. What connections existed between the women’s rights movement and the Abolition and labor
movements?
Website Resources
(OPD etc.)
Articles from GALE
Discovery
ABC-CLIO EBooks
Links to JSTOR articles
OPD websites and other sources
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Agents of Social Change (Smith College) (Best History Sites summary)
Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home - Web site for the Iowa childhood home of U.S. suffrage leader Carrie
Chapman Catt, including a biography, extensive bibliography, multi-media gallery, and links to other sites related to
woman suffrage and women's history. (ODP summary)
Half the People: 1917-1996 (PBS): Part of PBS's People's Century television series, this site focuses of women's fight
for equal rights. There are interviews, a timeline, and a teacher's guide (Best History Sites summary)
History of Women's Suffrage - Student project. Detailed history of the women's suffrage movement along with
quotes, speeches, a report on the responsibility of voting, a timeline, and pictures and photos from the movement.
(ODP summary)
Library of Congress: Votes for Women - Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA) Collection, which includes books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the women's suffrage
campaign. (ODP summary)
Living the Legacy: Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1998: Sponsored by the National Women's History Project, the
site provides a history of the movement and a detailed timeline. (Best History Sites summary)
Museum of Women's History: Political Culture and Imagery of American Women Suffrage: Provides a succinct
overview of the suffrage movement in words and pictures. (Best History Sites summary)
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia - Provides that neither any individual state or
the federal government may deny a citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. Included are ratification
dates and states and text. (ODP summary)
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony - Learn how women got the
right to vote--and how two 19th century women made it happen--in this interactive look at the struggle for
suffrage. Delve into historical documents and discuss the state of the women's movement today. (ODP summary)
10. Passage of the 19th Amendment 1919-20 - Articles from the New York Times. (ODP summary)
11. Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 Includes biographies of 35 women who
played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, a database of written primary sources produced by, or about,
these thirty-five women and a collection of visual images that reflect the different views on the emancipation of
women. Includes cartoons from The Vote Magazine, Punch and Anti-Suffrage Postcards. (BULB summary)
12. Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia: USA Women's Suffrage Offers biographies of prominent historical campaigners for
women's suffrage in the USA. Also provides details of political campaigns and organisations which played a role in
the enfranchisement of women. (BULB summary)
13. The Long Road to Suffrage - About.com page on the 1848-1920 cause for woman suffrage in the United States.
Includes various timelines, biographies, photographs, and articles. (ODP summary)
14. The Nineteenth Amendment - From the University of Missiouri Kansas City. Included are text, background and
photos. (ODP summary)
15. The Nineteenth Amendment and the War of the Roses - Dramatic story of the decisive Tennessee legislature vote
for ratification of the 19th Amendment in Nashville, August 18, 1920. (ODP summary)
16. The Seneca Falls Convention - A short history from the Smithsonian Institute of events surrounding the Seneca Falls
Convention. This convention marks a major step toward women's equality. (ODP summary)
17. The Seneca Falls Convention: Teaching about the Rights of Women and the Heritage of the Declaration. - Provides
the full-text of this ERIC Digest which details the history of the Seneca Falls Convention and gives lesson plan ideas
for teaching about it. (ODP summary)
18. The Woman Suffrage Timeline - Chronological history of women's struggle for voting rights in the United States.
(ODP summary)
19. Timeline of Women's Suffrage - A timeline overview of the women's suffrage movement. American Women's 72year fight to win the vote. (ODP summary)
20. Votes for Women: 1850-1920 - Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850 - 1920, collection contains pictorial
portraits and scenes document the fight to gain women the vote. (ODP summary)
21. Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 Consists of the text of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign. (ODP
summary)
22. Votes for Women’s Suffrage, Pictures 1850-1920: archive image collection from Library of Congress American
Memory program. Use the search and browse keys to check for imagery. All imagery is for educational purposes
under fair use.
23. Western New York Suffragists: Winning the Vote - Biographies of numerous suffragists (Susan B. Anthony, Clara
Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Frederick Douglass, and others) and timelines of the movement. (ODP summary)
24. Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment - From the National Archives find links to documents useful in teaching
about this amendment. (ODP summary)
25. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Best History Sites summary)
26. Women's Suffrage - Winning the Vote for Women - About.com page offers detailed history with hundreds of links,
including profiles of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Pankhursts, and Mathilda Jocelyn Gage. (ODP
summary)
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"Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947)."DISCovering Biography. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
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"Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947)."Encyclopedia of World Biography. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd Detroit: Gale
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"Feminism in the 1910s: The Fight for Suffrage, 1910-1919."DISCovering U.S.
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"League of Women Voters Is Founded, February, 1920."DISCovering U.S.
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"League of Women Voters Is Founded, February, 1920."DISCovering U.S.
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"Nineteenth Amendment."Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Thomas Carson and Mary
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"Park, Maud Wood (1871-1955)."DISCovering U.S. History. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering
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"Paul, Alice (1885-1977)."DISCovering U.S. History. Online Detroit: Gale, 2003. Discovering Collection. Gale. .
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"Paul, Alice (1885-1977)."Encyclopedia of World Biography. Jennifer Mossman. 192nd Detroit: Gale
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"Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)."Encyclopedia of World Biography. Suzanne M. Bourgoin. 2nd Detroit: Gale
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From Suffrage to the Senate: An Encyclopedia of American Women in Politics
International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage
Women and the Law: Leaders, Cases, and Documents
Women and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook
Voting Rights on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents
The Right to Vote: Rights and Liberties under the Law
Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers
Voting in America: A Reference Handbook
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Subjects
Susan B. Anthony
Alice Paul
Anna Howard Shaw
Carrie Chapman Catt
Iron Jawed Angels
Ida B. Wells
Women’s Suffrage
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