7 Progressive Era and fight for women’s rights
- Primary Source Text: Series of sources on the Triangle Fire, including speeches and reactions in its aftermath. I always assign the Rose Schneiderman one in particular.
- Primary Source Text/Photos: Exhibition on Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Mass.
- Primary Source Text: Classic disgusting excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
- Primary Source Text: Excerpt from 20 Years at Hull House by Jane Addams.
- Documentary: One Woman, One Vote – American Experience documentary on fight for women’s legal rights, culminating in suffrage.
- Hollywood Movie: Iron Jawed Angels, HBO movie starring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul.
