Lesson Plan, Teaching Guide Women's Suffrage

A traditional narrative of women suffrage often begins with the Seneca Falls where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other activists gathered in 1848 to discuss women’s rights. From there, the story goes, Susan B. Anthony and other white women waged decades-long fights until finally the 19th Amendment gave all women the right to vote. This lesson plans expands that narrative to include other women of color such as Indigenous, Black, Asian, and Latinx women who fought for women’s suffrage: Zitkála-Šá, Ida B. Wells, Jovita Idár, and Mable Ping-Hua Lee.