Eighth-grade social studies students at Crispell have been immersed in the progressive era and suffrage, women’s suffrage to be precise. Library Media Specialist Lisa Ruyack brought in displays from the New York Heritage Digital Collections that spelled out in words and pictures the struggle for women to gain the right to vote.

 

The students learned how the leaders of the movement used parades and popular products to get their message out and sway the thinking of the public. There was no social media back in the late 1800s! White women won the right to vote in 1917 in New York but it wasn’t until 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment that women throughout the country could vote.

 

 

 

The students were tasked with finding information found on the banners to complete their worksheets, then discussed it with Ms. Ruyack, who was dressed as a suffragette of the period.