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WOMENS SUFFRAGE LINKS GUIDE

Digital Collections from the Library of Congress Web site: Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 collection (collection connection) consists of 167 textual documents (books, pamphlets and other artifacts) detailing the suffrage campaign. By Popular Demand: Votes for Women Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 collection (collection connection) is the pictorial companion to the above collection. It includes portraits of suffrage leaders, cartoons, an anti-suffrage display, and photographs of parades and pickets. Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913. [1913] Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 18971911 collection (collection connection) includes Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Millers seven scrapbooks. Each documents their womens suffrage movement work. Articles, pins, ribbons and other memorabilia are also in the collection. Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party collection (collection connection) is a group of 448 photographs selected from the Records of the National Womans Party collection. These images show the militant wing of the suffrage movement. The collection page also includes information essays, a timeline, and a gallery of imprisoned suffrage activists. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers is a good place to find contemporary coverage of the suffrage and anti-suffrage movement across the nation. The Library created a topics page for the Nineteenth Amendment; this page gives important dates, suggested search terms, and sample articles. American Memory has seven collections specifically dedicated or relevant to womens history. Americas Story from Americas Library: Ten Suffragists Arrested While Picketing at the White House, August 28, 1917 Nineteenth Amendment Granting Women's Suffrage Was Sent to the States, June 4, 1919 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and related articles (1, 2, 3) Timelines from the Library of Congress: American Memory Timeline: Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929, especially the Womens Suffrage in the Progressive Era topic as well as the National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1880, Reformers and Crusaders topic. Be sure to view the linked documents. Timeline One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview is featured in the two Votes for Women collections (here and here).

Exhibitions from the Library of Congress: American Treasures: Abolition & Suffrage online exhibit case The Library of Congress and The British Library, London: John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations. The sections entitled From Abolition to Equal Rights places the womens suffrage movement in the context of abolition, the progressive era, and the civil rights movement for African Americans while showing the influence American and British reformers had on each other. myLOC exhibits with relevant items:

NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom, 1909-2009 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Educator and Rights Advocate Mary Church Terrell, and Social Worker Florence Kelly. Creating the United States Political Rights of Women Asserted, Abigail Adams, Seeking Womens Rights, Womens Rights, First Conference to Discuss Womens Rights, Retouching the Declaration of Independence, Recalling the Spirit of 76 for Womens Rights, Womens Declaration of Rights, Seeking Womens Rights to Vote, and Scrapbook Shows Women Seeking Equal Rights. Presentations from the Library of Congress: Women Pioneers in American Memory myLOCs Hidden Treasure video, The Unlikely Rebel, looks at Lucy Burns and her role in the womens suffrage movement. Wise Guide I Protest! Flickr Album by the Library of Congress Women Striving Forward, 1910s40s National Register listed People & Places (HABs surveys, lesson plans, online exhibits, etc.): Womens Rights National Historic Park, in Seneca Falls, NY, contains five historic buildings. Four of them are documented in the Library of Congresss Built in America survey: the Wesleyan Chapel, Village Hall (Visitor Center), Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, and M'Clintock House. NPS produced a lesson plan, The M'Clintock House: A Home to the Women's Rights Movement, for the site. Sewall-Belmont House & Museum, in Washington, D.C., has online exhibits, some digitized artifacts, and essays relevant to the womens suffrage movement. Also see the Built in America survey of the Sewall-Belmont House and an NPS lesson plan, A Womans Place Is In the Sewall-Belmont House: Alice Paul and Womens Rights. Lafayette Park, in Washington, D.C., across from the White House, has a NPS lesson plan, Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the Presidents Doorstep. Also see the Built in America survey of Lafayette Square. Clara Barton National Historic Site, in Glen Echo, MD, has an online exhibit, Clara Barton: Virtual Museum Exhibit, which presents some information on her work for womens suffrage. The Clara Barton House has a survey in the Built in America collection. Carrie Chapman Catt House in Westchester County, NY, appears in Chronicling America, showing a photograph of the home in 1919, right after Carrie Chapman Catt acquired Juniper Ledge, as the home was called.

The apotheosis of suffrage. [1896]

Essays from the Library of Congress: American Memory: American Women: A Gateway to Library of congress Resources for the Study of Womens History and Culture in the United States. Though it is not a digital collection guide, the gateway provides a detailed history of womens suffrage (see all five parts) as well as a breakdown of state suffrage laws. The guide also includes an essay on the Suffrage Parade of 1913. Information Bulletin Scrapbooking Suffragists, introduces the Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 18971911 collection and associated webcast, Catch the Suffragists Spirit: The Millers Suffrage Scrapbooks, by The Awakening [1915 February 20] Rosemary Fry Plakas. The rare books curator discusses the scrapbooks made by the Miller women and provides links to pages, collections, and exhibits of interest. Teaching Resources: Themed Resources from the Library's Teachers Page: Womens History (including 1, 2, 3, and 4 lesson plans and a primary source set) TPS-MTSU Lesson Plan: A More Perfect Union: Women's Suffrage and the Constitution TPS-MTSU Lesson Plan: Civil Disobedience and the National Woman's Party TPS-MTSU Newsletter, November 2012: Womens Suffrage TPS-MTSU Primary Source Set: Womens Suffrage in Tennessee TPS-MTSU Primary Source Set: Womens Suffrage Movement Across America The Teachers Corner of the Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 collection currently includes lesson plans and ideas as well as Document-Based Questions relevant to womens history and the womens suffrage movement. Contemporary Web sites & Organizations: League of Women Voters Media Library contains a lot of relevant photographs and short bios from the organizations history. Each decade is featured in the Time Machine. Womens History Month Web site includes resources for teachers and links to exhibits and collections. National Womens History Museum Web site has online exhibits, lesson plans relevant to online exhibits, biographies, and general educational resources available for teachers and students. National Womens Hall of Fame Web site includes a brief biography on the 247 inductees. Movies & Documentaries: PBS film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The documentarys Web site includes resources for teachers and the classroom. HBO movie by Katja von Garnier Iron Jawed Angels. This YouTube.com playlist includes the whole movie. Party watchfires burn outside White House, Jan. 1919. [1919]

Search Terms: Use these search terms on the Librarys homepage, in American Memory, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Built in America, Chronicling America, and within specific collections. Phrases women's rights, equality, social reform, voting rights, womens suffrage movement, nineteenth amendment, suffrage march 13, Marching for the Vote, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), suffragette, suffragist, Afro-American Women Organizations National Woman's Party, NWP, Tenn. N.W.P., Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, Congressional Union, National American Woman Suffrage Association, NAWSA, Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Woman's Party Corporation, National Anti-Suffrage Association, Womens National Anti-Suffrage League, Geneva Political Equality Club People Abigail Adams, Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Abby Kelley Foster, Sojourner Truth, Angelina Grimke, Sarah Grimke, Wendell Phillips, Ernestine Rose, Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, Harriot Stanton Blatch The Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va. [March 2, 1913] Places Women's Rights National Historical Park, Wesleyan Chapel, Village Hall (Visitor Center), Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, M'Clintock House, Clara Barton House, Sewall-Belmont House, Lafayette Square, Seneca Falls, Waterloo, Occoquan Workhouse Tennessee Related Resources: Tennessee Encyclopedia: Category, Suffrage, which includes biographies on Tennessees suffragists Tennessee Encyclopedia: Woman Suffrage Movement Tennessee Encyclopedia: League of Women Voters of Tennessee Today in History: January 3, 1793 Lucretia Mott January 11, 1885 Alice Paul March 8, 1884 Susan B. Anthony & Congress April 4, 1873 Carrie S. Burnham May 28-29, 1851 Ohio Woman's Rights Convention June 4, 1919 Congress Approves 19th Amendment July 19-20, 1848 The Seneca Falls Convention and The Seneca Falls Convention Continues August 28, 1917 Picketing for Suffrage November 4 Election Day November 12, 1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton December 10, 1869 Wyoming Day