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Department of State

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission

The Hon. Tahesha Way, Lt. Governor and Secretary of State

The Early Woman's Movement in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ

Grades 5 through 8

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission and Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 2001

“Quilts, Coverlets, and Samplers”
pp. 148-156. In The Folklore and Folklife of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ
David Steven Cohen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983

Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ
Neale McGoldrick and Margaret Crocco, 1994.
Available from the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation,
or info@alicepaul.org or phone 856-231-1885.

Audio and Video

Vistas of Democracy
A 30-minute television documentary about the abolitionist and women's movements in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ in the early nineteenth century. A co-production of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network and the Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 2000

Documents

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission and Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 2001.
Declaration of Sentiments - 1848, pp. 79-80

Lucy Stone's Protest of Taxation Without Representation, 1858
Her letter to the tax assessor, signaling her refusal to pay property taxes.

Grades 9 through 12

Books, Articles and Teachers Guides

Past and Promise: Lives of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women
Women's Project of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996
Clara Barton, pp. 51-53
Dorothea Lynde Dix, pp. 59-61
Lucy Stone, pp. 89-91

“Home, Factory, and Society”
(Safeguarding the Home, Clara Barton, Domesticity and Femininity, Mill Girls, Slavery and Slave Women, Early Reformers, Dorothea Dix)
pp. 25-44. In Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Women: A History of Their Status, Roles,and Images
Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos. Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History Series. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission, 1997

Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Legacy Teachers Guide
Program Six. Vistas of Democracy
David S. Cohen. Trenton: Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Historical Commission and Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ Network, 2001

Reclaiming Lost Ground: The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ
Neale McGoldrick and Margaret Crocco, 1994
Available from the Alice Paul Centennial Foundation,
or info@alicepaul.org or phone 856-231-1885

Documents

Acts of the Fifteenth General Assembly of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, 1790
This document refers to voters as both “he” and “she”.

Acts of the Thirty-Second General Assembly of Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ, 1807
This constitutional amendment describes the qualifications of voters in Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ during that time.

Married Women's Property Act, 1852
This was the first Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ law reforming married women's property rights.

Lucy Stone's Protest of Taxation Without Representation, 1858
Her letter to the tax assessor, signaling her refusal to pay property taxes.

Words That Make Ó£»¨ÊÓÆµ History
Edited by Howard L. Green. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995
Hiring Women Teachers (1870), pp. 161-162

Internet Sites

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project


Select: “Enter
Select: “Market Revolution
Select: “1844 Constitution

 

 


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