There are so many wonderful directions you can go with a study on Susan B. Anthony!  Our top recommendation is to study her life and to learn about voting and the election process.  Here are a few ideas to get you started!

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For All Ages

Movie/Video

Short Bio video about Susan B. Anthony

Longer Video about Susan B. Anthony

Visit

In Person:

• The Susan B. Anthony House and Museum in Rochester, New York
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Massachusetts

Online Exhibits:

• National Portrait Gallery: VOTES FOR WOMEN: A PORTRAIT OF PERSISTENCE
  
• National Women’s History Museum: Crusade for the Vote
  
• National Archives Museum presents Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
  
  
• Alice Paul Institute: For Democracy: Celebrating 100 Years of the 19th Amendment
  

Resources

• Women’s Suffrage Buttons, Stickers, T-shirts and more from The History List Store
  
  
• US Capital Votes for Women Tour Podcast

Books

Elementary

• Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage by Claire Rudolph Murphy
  
  
• Who Was Susan B. Anthony? by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso
  
  
• Women Win the Vote!: 19 for the 19th Amendment by Nancy B. Kennedy
  
  
• Susan B. Anthony by Alexandra Waller
  
  
• Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President by Ann Malaspina
  
  
• Friends for Freedom: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass by Suzanne Slade
  
  
• Rightfully Ours: How Women Won the Vote, 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Kerrie Logan Hollihan

 Middle School/High School & Beyond

• Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words by Lynn Sherr
  
  
• Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

 

1 Week with Susan B. Anthony

Day 1: Learn about Susan B. Anthony

• Read the Heritage Letter from Susan B. Anthony
• Read books about Susan B. Anthony (depending on how many books you have available or the length of the books you could space them out over the week)

Day 2: Watch Susan B. Anthony in Action

• Watch one or both of the videos about Susan B. Anthony linked above.

Day 3: Susan B. Anthony Vocabulary

• Discuss four of the vocabulary words from this month’s letter (suffrage, reform, constitutional amendment, election) with the vocabulary cards in our free printables.

Day 4: Susan B. Anthony Acrostic

• Use your knowledge of Susan B. Anthony and the women’s suffrage movement to complete the Susan B. Anthony Acrostic in our free printables.

Day 5: Have a Women’s Suffrage March

• Use our free printables to create signs and badges to wear then have a re-creation of a women’s suffrage march. You could even create a ballot box and design ballots for each of your children to vote for the topic of your choice! 

 

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