Do your students know the story of the first woman senator, an 87-year-old woman from Georgia named Rebecca Latimer Felton? During this 100th year anniversary celebration of winning the right for women to vote, Felton's story would make for great storytelling about the attitudes women faced while fighting for that right both before and after it became official.

Be sure to read the final paragraph:

In her address...to a capacity audience, the Georgia senator described a cartoon she had received showing the Senate in session. "The seats seemed to be fully occupied, and there appeared in the picture the figure of a woman who had evidently entered without sending in her card. The gentlemen in the Senate took the situation variously,” she continued. “Some seemed to be a little bit hysterical, but most of them occupied their time looking at the ceiling," without offering the newcomer a seat. Felton concluded with the following prediction. "When the women of the country come in and sit with you, though there may be but very few in the next few years, I pledge you that you will get ability, you will get integrity of purpose, you will get exalted patriotism, and you will get unstinted usefulness."

https://www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000372/

Pre K - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 Social Studies/History United States Senate women's suffrage Georgia