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In 1920, women gained the right to vote, but only after a long, hard fight. That long road to victory took women and men from the Green in Dover to the White House in Washington, D.C., and to nearly every city and town in Delaware. The Votes for Women Flyer, the Silent Sentinels standing in front of the White House, the militant suffragists and the equally insistent antisuffragists, all made for a colorful, exciting moment in America's history ... but a moment too soon forgotten. To make sure that - continue to learn about the nineteenth amendment and the role Delawareans played in its passage, the Historical Society of Delaware, with the financial support of the Delaware Humanities Forum, has created an educational packet of materials for use in the classroom, some of which is reproduced on these pages. We hope you and students for many years to come will use these materials and that they will generate discussion and understanding of an important expansion of voting rights in America. |
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