How can what we learn from the work of Alice Paul inspire individual activism and perspectives on positive social change?

How can activists and activism evolve over time?

How has the nature of native women’s anticolonial resistance changed over time?

Students will read and listen to the music of Bernice Johnson Reagon, using the words of Ella Baker (Ella’s Song) and a PBS essay in order to make connections to historical and contemporary pursuits for justice.

This 3-part lesson will give the students a basic understanding of Mary Church Terrell and prepare them for future studies on the early 20th century Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States.

This lesson examines the life and career of Belva Lockwood, 19th century lawyer and women’s right advocate whose achievements opened the door for others to follow.

In this lesson, students will examine the history of Black Women’s Clubs through the lenses of leadership, action, and bravery along with analyzing the role Black Women’s Clubs played in the Women’s Suffrage movement.

Students will analyze primary sources to develop inquiries and draw conclusions regarding the impact of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune on civil rights in the twentieth-century United States.

This lesson plan will teach students about the life of Ona Judge and the historical context of her enslavement and escape to freedom.

Students will examine a timeline of the life of Mary Church Terrell and complete a close reading of her speech, “The Progress of Colored Women” (1898)

In Spring 2023, the National Women's History Museum partnered with a class at Miss Hall's School, an independent high school for girls in Massachusetts, to create a discussion guide for select sites featured in "We Who Believe in Freedom."

The story of a company founded by four US Women’s National Team soccer players seeking to challenge norms and inspire lasting progress.

How can food be used as a form of cultural memory & resistance?

The story of a leader in social, environmental, and political activism and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

How have Indigenous people exercised sovereignty and self-determination in the modern world?

This is a short thirty-minute lesson on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.

Students will analyze different perspectives of Stacey Abrams’s candidacy for Georgia’s Governor to learn about civic responsibility.

In this lesson, students will consider what life in America was like prior to Roe v. Wade.

Students will explore Angela Davis’ call for intersectionality and a feminist solidarity for the 21st century.

The Delano Grape Strike represents one of the most important labor movements in American history and demonstrates an intersection between the Civil Rights Movement and the movement initiated by the Mexican-American and Filipino-American communities.