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: https://trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/story/introduction.html

Primary Source Text/Photos: Exhibition on Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Mass: https://dp.la/exhibitions/breadandroses/lawrence

Primary Source Text: Classic disgusting excerpt from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/excerpt-from-the-jungle

Primary Source Text: Excerpt from 20 Years at Hull House by Jane Addams: https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/theodore-dreiser-s-sister-carrie-and-the-urbanization-of-chicago/sources/1641

Documentary: One Woman, One Vote – American Experience documentary on fight for women’s legal rights, culminating in suffrage: https://cod.kanopy.com/cod/video/one-woman-one-vote-0?frontend=kui

Hollywood Movie: Iron Jawed Angels, HBO movie starring Hillary Swank as Alice Paul: https://www.amazon.com/Iron-Jawed-Angels-Hilary-Swank/dp/B0B8TNS64M/ref=sr_1_1?crid=RGW6KUQU9X8E&keywords=iron+jawed+angels&qid=1682251461&s=instant-video&sprefix=iron+jawe%2Cinstant-video%2C109&sr=1-1

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