Resources

Here you will find Educational Toolkits with age-appropriate materials for both the elementary and secondary students, along with additional resources as part of the Fox Valley 19th Amendment Centennial Coalition’s Speaker’s Bureau, a list of books relating to the women's suffrage movement and other resources surrounding the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Elementary Toolkit

*For Appleton Area School District (Appleton, WI):
Physical elementary educational toolkits will be ready when in-person school reopens for all elementary schools in the Appleton Area School District, in the meantime please use our electronic resources above. Check with your school's media specialist in the LMC for more information and availability.

Learn about our Speaker's Bureau to schedule a virtual or in-person speaker for your class to supplement these resources.

Secondary Toolkit

Speaker's Bureau

Speaker Notes & Presentations

Please contact us if you are interested in receiving actual PowerPoint files for any of the presentations. Learn about our Speaker's Bureau if you would like to schedule a virtual or in-person speaker to supplement these resources for your class.

Books

Find a list of recommended reading below. The various books cover a variety of topics surrounding women and the women's suffrage movement.

*Books are linked to non-affiliate purchase points. Alternatively, consider contacting your local library about any of these titles, or others they may carry in their collection.

Ida From Abroad

By: Michelle Duster

Michelle Obama’s Impact on African American Women and Girls

Edited by: Michelle Duster, Paula Marie Seniors, Rose C. Thevenin

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth (Author), Margaret Washington (Editor, Introduction)

On Wisconsin Women:

Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage (History of American Thought and Culture)

By: Genevieve G. McBride

The Perfect 36:

Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage

By: Carol Lynn Yellin & Janann Sherman

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By: Jill Lepore

Winning the Vote:

The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement

By: Robert P. J. Cooney Jr.

The Woman's Hour:

The Great Fight to Win the Vote

By: Elaine Weiss

Women, Race, & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

The Women's Suffrage Movement

By: Sally Roesch Wagner

Women's Wisconsin:

From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium

Edited by: Genevieve G. McBride

Additional Resources

Find additional outside resources about topics pertaining to the 19th Amendment below. Please contact us if you have an additional resource you believe would be helpful to those seeking information about women's suffrage, the passage of the 19th Amendment, or other relevant topics.