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The NAACP Fights to Protect Voters

the photograph of Southern anti-suffragists and other examples of Jim Crow racism in the Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow curriculum guide. POWER AND POLITICS; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP For more about

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Together for Home and Family

the corseted cycling, golfing, and exercising outfits? AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY Source Notes Activism and Social Change. American Identity and Citizenship. Classroom Application. Daily

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Life Story: Jeannette Rankin

of her term. She did not run for re-election in 1942 and stayed in Montana until her mother’s death in 1947. By the 1950s, Jeannette had returned to peace activism. She traveled around the world speaking, volunteering, and helping to organize other

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Life Story: Ellen Swallow Richards

’s college, awarded her an honorary Ph.D. in recognition of her life’s work. Less than a year later, on March 30, 1911, she died of a heart attack. She was still a member of MIT’s faculty and actively conducting research until the day she died. co

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Waged Industrial Work

argues in favor of women controlling reproduction. WORK, LABOR, AND ECONOMY; DOMESTICITY AND FAMILY; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE Source Notes Activism and Social Change. Classroom Application. Daily Life. Domesticity and Family. Elementary School. High

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Life Story: Edith Maude Eaton

Free.” Explore Edith’s depiction of a Chinese immigrant mother and the way in which she criticizes the American government’s policies through this short narrative. ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP For more about the

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Life Story: Sarah “Madam C.J.” Breedlove Walker

chosen hairstles. Download a PDF of the full guidelines here. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE; IMMIGRATION, MIGRATION, AND SETTLEMENT; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE; AMERICAN CULTURE For more resources relating to Black women in the nineteenth and

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Higher Education and the Domestic Sciences

; ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE Source Notes Activism and Social Change. American Culture. Classroom Application. Daily Life. Document. High School. Middle School. Modernizing America, 1889−1920. Public & Personal Health. Region. Resource Type. Science

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Election Day 1920

was renamed the League of Women Voters. A new era of women-led activism began. This is the front page of a newspaper from Election Day 1920. West Virginia had no voting by women until the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Even without reading

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Housework and Electricity

An illustration that raises questions about the role of women in social reform and outlines the social evils many middle-class citizens feared.

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