Teaching with Primary Sources: Women's Suffrage & Libraries

Text reads: Teaching with Primary Sources: Women's Suffrage & Libraries. Black and white photo of suffragettes outside of the White House. ALA logo. Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium Member logo. Original Image Credit: Harris & Ewing. Penn[sylvania] on the picket line, [January 24,] 1917. Reproduction. NWP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (327.00.00)

History textbooks often offer a simplistic narrative of the nation’s experience of granting women the ballot, but a closer look paints a much more complex history of women’s voting rights activism.

With funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, ALA's Teaching with Primary Sources: Women's Suffrage & Libraries program seeks to shed light on lesser-known histories and perspectives from the women’s suffrage era and create user-friendly resources so libraries across the United States can lead impactful conversations about this important part of our nation’s past.

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Teaching with Primary Sources: Women's Suffrage & Libraries is made possible by the Library of Congress. The program is administered by ALA's Public Programs Office. To be notified about future grants and opportunities from ALA's Public Programs Office, sign up for ALA’s Programming Librarian newsletter.

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Image Credit: Harris & Ewing. Penn[sylvania] on the picket line, [January 24,] 1917. Reproduction. NWP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (327.00.00)

Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress.