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Suffrage parade, March 13, 1913 		Lesson Three:
 Timeline and Reflection on Woman's Suffrage
Portrait of Alice Paul
"This is a spirit like Joan of Arc, and it is useless to try to change it. She will die, but she will never give up."
Prison doctor said of Alice Paul after her 22-day hunger strike. (Hymowitz, 282)

Procedure

  1. View One Hundred Years of Suffrage: An Overview

  2. Choose keywords, such as names of people or events, and search the following collections:

  3. Select five sources (letters, plays, songs, broadsides, etc.) from your time period and place in chronological order in a timeline. Using the selected sources, prepare a creative presentation that illustrates your time period.

  4. Add your timeline to the class timeline and present your group's creative interpretation of the woman's suffrage movement during your time period.

  5. Using information gathered from lessons one, two, and three, each individual will write a reflection paper detailing the societal views, the reforms demanded, the various strategies used over time to achieve national suffrage, and theorize why the movement was successful in 1920.

 

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