Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
Preparation

[Detail] The first picket line, Feb 1917 College

Overview | Preparation | Procedure | Evaluation

Lesson Preparation

Materials

Primary Source Analysis Tool

Before beginning the unit, collect and print out primary source documents from the Library of Congress Web site that relate to strategies used to achieve women's suffrage.

Create motivational displays in the classroom, See these examples of possible displays.

Resources

Prepare a selection of primary sources that relate to this sample list of strategies used to achieve women's suffrage. Additional primary sources may be found in the collections listed after these examples.

Create a political banner
Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913

Create and wear a political button or pin
Yellow delegates' ribbon with white button

Create and wear a political button or pin
Yellow ribbon from 1911 Suffrage Parade

Draw a political cartoon
The apotheosis of suffrage
Election Day!
Women's sphere cartoon

Design a postcard
Postcard of Abraham Lincoln statue with suffrage caption
Postcard of Lucretia Mott
"Men who love freedom" postcard

Disobey the law to make a statement
An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony

Design a poster or broadside
Suffrage campaign days in New Jersey.
Broadside on suffrage parade, New York City, April 1911
Votes for women! The woman's reason. ... National American woman suffrage association. Headquarters: 505 Fifth Avenue, New York

Form an association
Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 19132
Anne F. Miller's NAWSA membership certificatee

Meet with government officials
Address to the Legislature of New-York, adopted by the State Woman's Rights Convention
Governor Edwin P. Morrow signing the Anthony Amendment--Ky. was the twenty-fourth state to ratify, January 6, 1920

Give a speech
Stump speaking--In the days of "Old Dobbin" and Derby hats Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch exhorted the Wall Street crowds
Breaking in suffrage speakers - Mrs. E.R. Smith
The constitutional rights of the women of the United States: an address before the International Council of Women

Hold a convention
The first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848
26th Convention of the Kentucky equal rights

March in a parade
Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913
Suffragists marching, probably in New York City in 1913
Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912
Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C.