Women's Suffrage Month Resource Round-up

August 18, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted American women the right to vote. The United States Senate recently designated August as Women’s Suffrage Month.

To help celebrate this new resolution, we compiled a list of resources to inform and help librarians with programming ideas to teach this important history.

Do you have any other resources that are not listed below? Please share them in the comments or email us at programminglibrarian@ala.org. 

Online Resources and LibGuides

• Women’s Suffrage Expert Database, Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission
• “Herstory Time,” Women’s Vote Centennial
• “Centennial Planning Guide,” Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission
• "5 Black Suffragists Who Fought for the 19th Ammendment," History.com
• “Women’s Suffrage in Sheet Music,” Library of Congress
• "Votes for Women means Votes for Black Women," National Women's History Museum
• “Shall Not be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote,” Library of Congress
• "Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights," National Park Service
• “Women Remember Suffrage,” PBS
• “Susan B. Anthony Papers,” Library of Congress
• “Women’s Suffrage Timeline,” National Park Service
• "Rightfully Hers" exhibit tour at the National Archives, United States National Archives
• “Suffrage School,” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
• “Women’s Suffrage Movement: Resources for Suffrage,” Standish Library, Siena College, Loudonville (N.Y.)
• “Women’s Suffrage Movement: Movies and Videos,” Montana State University Billings (Mont.) Library

For kids

• National Park Service – Women’s History for Kids
• “Flat Susan B. Anthony” coloring page
• Women’s Right to Vote word searches
• Suffrage Quiz for Kids

Reading lists

• Trailblazers Book Club, Women’s Vote Centennial
• Children’s Books, 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative
• "5 of the Best Books About the Influence of Black Women in the Suffrage Movement," Book Riot

News Articles

• "Meet the Brave but Overlooked Women of Color Who Fought for the Vote," New York Times, July 24, 2020
• “When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy,” New York Times, Feb. 2, 2019
• "This Is Not a Boring History of Nagging Spinsters," New York Times, July 10, 2020.
• "Black Women's Long Struggle for Voting Rights," The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2020
• “My ___ Was a Suffragist”, The New York Times, July 2, 2020
• “5 Essential Black Figures In The Women’s Suffrage Movement,” WGBH
• "Born from abolition, ceded to racism: A broad history of the fight for women's rights," KYW News Radio
• “What Activists Today Can Learn from the Women’s Suffrage Movement,” Washington Post, March 8, 2019
• "How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect," NEH Magazine, Summer 2019

Lesson Plans

• Meeting Alice: Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5 on Alice Paul, Alice Paul Institute 
• Centennial Learning Center for Teachers, 2020 Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative
• Women’s Voting Rights – Middle School Lesson Plan, National Women’s History Museum
• 19th Amendment – High School Lesson Plan, National Women’s History Museum
• Seneca Falls Convention – High School Lesson Plan, National Women’s History Museum
• Progressive Era Suffrage Groups – High School Lesson Plan, National Women’s History Museum

Podcasts

• “The Magic Sash,” narrated by Aly Raisman, Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, the National Park Service, PRX 
• “And Nothing Less: The Untold Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote,” with Rosario Dawson and Retta, Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, the National Park Service, PRX