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October 10, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the election
in which California women won the right to vote. Resources with which teachers
and students can explore the history and meaning of this momentous event are
available via the links below.
In 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her friends organized a woman’s
rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a married woman could not own
property. She could not sue or be sued, make a contract or a will, or
operate a business in her own name. If she worked, her wages belonged to her
husband. In the event of a divorce, the father had custody of their
children. Without the money to pay for a private education, a woman who
aspired to college was largely out of luck, since the doors of most public
universities were closed to her. In no state could she vote, except as a
school board member here, a municipal officer there. In the words of the
convention’s “Declaration of Sentiments,” she was “civilly dead.”
from the Prologue to
A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
by Mary Walton (2010)
http://bit.ly/nSpWjQ
The University of California Bancroft Library's Suffrage
Centennial Exhibit, California
Women and the Vote, is
now online. View it here:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/suffrage/index.html
The
Berkeley Historical Society's exhibit, Berkeley
Women Vote, is open through the end of March 2012. The Berkeley
Historical Society is located at 1931 Center St., Berkeley, CA. Exhibit
hours are Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 1 to 4 pm.
An exhibit from the International Museum of Women
http://www.imow.org/exhibitions/past?id=14
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony for voting in the 1872
Presidential Election
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbahome.html
The CA Secretary of State's Woman Suffrage Centennial
page
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/suffrage/history/index.htm
The National Woman's Party Suffrage Campaign Exhibit page
http://www.sewallbelmont.org/exhibits/permanent-exhibit/
MS Magazine, A Suffrage Cliffhanger in California
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/10/10/october-10-1911-a-suffrage-cliffhanger-in-california/
from the Women of the West Museum
http://theautry.org/explore/exhibits/suffrage/index.html
The National Archives Teaching With Documents:
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/
Suffragists Oral History Project, UC
Berkeley Bancroft Library
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/suffragist/
5 Reasons Men Shouldn't Be Allowed to Vote
http://twentytwowords.com/2011/07/10/5-reasons-men-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-vote/
The 1911 vote results, by county
CASuffrageVoteResults10-10-1911.pdf
- Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas
TeachingHistory.org: Woman Suffrage and the 19th
Amendment
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-reviews/23943
The Woodrow Wilson Library
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/womens-suffrage/321-womens-suffrage-includes-lesson-plan
EDSITEment: Voting Rights for Women, Pro and Con
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/voting-rights-women-pro-and-anti-suffrage
EDSITEment: Why the West First
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/womens-suffrage-why-west-first
The Library of Congress: Their Rights and Nothing
Less
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/lessons/women-rights/
PBS: Not for Ourselves Alone
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/index.html
Woman Suffrage and the Media
http://www.edb.utexas.edu/resources/team/lesson_4.html
from the Sewall-Belmont House
http://bit.ly/oQUJmg
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