Classroom Materials on the 19th Amendment

          This piece in School Library Journal has resources for the upcoming August 18, 2020 centennial of the Constitutional amendment through which women won the right to vote:

Websites:

-   Library of Congress material on women’s suffrage: www.bit.ly/2TcaLmf

-   2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative: www.2020centennial.org

-   Crusade for the Vote, National Women’s History Museum: www.crusadeforthevote.org

-   The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial: www.suffragistmemorial.org

Books:

-   Vote! Women’s Fight for Access to the Ballot Box by Coral Celeste Frazer (Twenty-First Century, 2020), grade 6 and up

-   Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment by Nancy Kennedy (Norton, 2020), grades 5-8

Articles:

-   “African-American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment” by Sharon Harley, National Park Service, www.bit.ly/35MN06Y

-   “How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect” by Martha Jones, National Endowment for the Humanities www.bit.ly/36Dnsdw

“The 19th Amendment’s Centennial” in School Library Journal, Feb. 2020 (Vol. 6, #2, p. 18)

(Please Note: The summary above is reprinted with permission from issue #823 of 

The Marshall Memo, an excellent resource for educators.)