Break up the news summaries and give them to groups of kids to read together. 

Guiding Questions:

• What are some key words?
• Any particular numbers that stand out?
• What does this mean?
• Why would they want to get kids outside?

There were suffrage and anti-suffrage music.  Songbooks were also used as a way to raise funds for the cause.

  sheet music    suffrage    Art/Music    Social Studies/History  

"When the 19th Amendment became law on August 26, 1920, 26 million adult female Americans were nominally eligible to vote. But full electoral equality was still decades away for many women of color who counted among that number."

Three of the images in this PBS article can be found at the Library of Congress.

Have students search for the photographs and research the activism of the three women through Chronicling America articles or secondary sources. What other names appear in their research that will help students build even more contextual knowledge?

  Culturally Relevant Pedagogy    activism    voting rights  

Women have suffered agony of soul which you can never comprehend, that you and your daughters might inherit political freedom. That vote has been costly. Prize it!

—Carrie Chapman Catt, 1920