Suffragists Demonstrate Against Woodrow Wilson
Social Movements
On October 20, 1916, the National Women's Party (NWP) organized a suffrage demonstration outside of an auditorium in Chicago where President Woodrow Wilson was giving a campaign speech. Wilson, a Democrat, was running for his second term as President. The NWP wanted to put pressure on political candidates to help push through a constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote. These demonstrators were attacked by a mob.
Burke & Atwell, Chicago
Records of the National Woman's Party Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress; Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.276016
1916
Modern America (1914-1929)
"Jailed for Freedom" Pin
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
In 1916, the National Women’s Party (NWP) began picketing the White House. NWP members criticized President Woodrow Wilson for going to war “to make the world safe for democracy†in World War I, while in the United States women were denied the right to vote. Police arrested the picketers for blocking traffic, and a judge sentenced them to seven months in prison. To recognize their sacrifice and heroism for the cause of suffrage, the NWP presented the women with small silver pins in the shape of a locked prison door.
National Women's Party
"The Object of History, National Museum of American History, http://objectofhistory.org/objects/extendedtour/votingmachine/?order=10
1917
Modern America (1914-1929)
The Movement Before the Movement prompt
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
This is the writing prompt for the activity "The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s."
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1839, 1840
English
The Movement Before the Movement cards
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
These cards are for the activity "The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s." Before beginning the activity, the teacher should print and cut out a set of event cards and who-what-where cards for each student or group participating in the activity.
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2011
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1839
English
Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
The Movement Before the Movement: Civil Rights Activism in the 1940s
Civil Rights and Citizenship
Social Movements
In this activity, students read cards about various civil rights protests and events during the 1940s. For each event, students match the issue (voting rights, fair employment, fair housing, or segregation in public places) at stake, identify the key people involved and what region of the country it took place in. After students have completed all the cards, an optional writing task asks students to synthesize the historical content by writing a letter to a relative serving overseas describing the efforts of civil rights activists in the 1940s. There is some assembly of materials required for this activity. This activity has optional Smartboard elements but can be completed without a Smartboard.
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2011
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English
Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
Analysis Worksheets: "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage"
Social Movements
These worksheets are designed to help students analyze nine primary sources in the activity "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage." Also included here are the answer keys for the worksheets.
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2010
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1696
English
Women's Suffrage Timeline Cards
Social Movements
These are the "event" and "date" cards used to complete a timeline of significant events in the women's suffrage movement. The directions for this activity can be found in the activity "Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage."
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2010
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1696
English
Social Movements and Constitutional Change: Women's Suffrage
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
In this activity, students analyze documents to arrange events on a timeline of women's suffrage. The timeline and documents will help students understand the intersection of social movements and constitutional change. This activity can be modified by reducing the number of documents. An optional Smartboard Notebook file is included to facilitate the activity.
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2010
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English
Modern America (1914-1929)
The National Women's Party Pickets the White House
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
In 1916, a new militant suffrage group, the National Women’s Party (NWP), was formed. Led by Alice Paul, the NWP began picketing the White House. NWP members criticized President Woodrow Wilson for going to war “to make the world safe for democracy†in World War I, while in the United States women were denied the right to vote. Police arrested the picketers for blocking traffic and a judge sentenced them to seven months in prison. Paul and other prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest the harsh treatment they received there. The willingness of the picketers to be arrested, their campaign for recognition as political prisoners rather than as criminals, and their acts of civil disobedience in jail shocked the nation and brought attention and support to their cause.
Unknown and Harris & Ewing (photographers)
“Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, ‘Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.’†1917, photograph, Library of Congress, Records of the National Woman's Party collection, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.275034. Harris & Ewing, Washington D.C., “Photograph of fourteen suffragists in overcoats on picket line, holding suffrage banners in front of the White House. One banner reads: ‘Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty’. White House visible in background.†1917, photograph, Library of Congress, Records of the National Woman's Party collection, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160022.
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1917
1800, 1696
English
Modern America (1914-1929)
Women Appeal for a Suffrage Amendment (with text supports)
Gender and Sexuality
Social Movements
Some suffrage activists were disappointed that the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did not include women’s right to vote. Susan B. Anthony and others formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), based in Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to pass a constitutional amendment that would guarantee women the right to vote. In 1876, the N.W.S.A. sent this appeal to hundreds of local groups, calling for a large petition drive to build support in Congress for the amendment. Two years later, Senator Aaron Sargent of California, a friend of Anthony’s, introduced a women’s suffrage amendment. Within four years, both the Senate and House of Representatives had formed “special committees†on women’s suffrage.
National Woman Suffrage Association
National Woman Suffrage Association, “Appeal for a Sixteenth Amendment,†10 November 1876, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives).
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1876
1802, 1696
English
Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)