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The Struggle for Voting Rights Playlist

146 minutes

12 Items

Voting Rights in America

E Lesson

20 Min

Voting Rights and the U.S. Constitution

E Lesson

20 Min

Handout A: Voting Rights, Women, and the Nineteenth Amendment

Activity

Handout B: Background Essay: Voting Rights Amendments

Activity

We Shall Overcome: The Fight for Voting Rights

Lesson

The Reconstruction Amendments: Thirteenth Amendment, 1865, Fourteenth Amendment, 1868, and Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

Activity

Learning from The Sky is Now Her Limit Cartoon | A Primary Source Close Read w/ BRI

Video

29 Min

Votes for Women

Curriculum

8 Lessons

Selma-to-Montgomery Marchers: Diligently Crossing the Bridge

Lesson

2 Activities

45 Min

Selma, Montgomery and “Good Trouble”

Podcast

32 Min

Remember the Ladies: Women’s Right to Vote

Podcast

Voting Rights Act, 1965

Activity