Additional Activities

Choose an important figure from the tour and explain why you think he or she was important. Do additional research to find out more about this person's work for civil rights.

Some important figures named in the tour are:

Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
John Dewey
W.E.B. DuBois
Florence Kelley
Elijah Lovejoy
Elizabeth Cody Stanton
Ellen Starr
Ida B. Wells

The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. Students can engage in a classroom performance portraying several different people in the suffrage movement.