Waves of History: The Women’s Rights Movement
Waves of History: The Women’s Rights Movement (IMAGE)
Time travel with TeachRock this Women’s History Month and explore the first, second, and third waves of the Women’s Rights Movement. These illuminating resources from our CNN Soundtracks: Songs that Defined History lesson collection are a standards-aligned and media-rich expedition spanning nearly 150 years of U.S. history. Click the links above and embark on a journey through the eras of feminism, where you’ll visit the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848, the Miss America Pageant Protest in 1968, and the Anita Hill Testimony in 1991, and while exploring, you’ll:
- Analyze Leslie Gore’s 1963 Top-Ten hit song, “You Don’t Own Me”
- Examine the Declaration of Sentiments that was principally drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Identify how the music of Bikini Kill, Salt-N-Pepa, and Selena reflected third-wave feminism
- Read excerpts from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
- And much more!
Watch this lesson video describing how Hip Hop provided representations of empowerment and visibility to women of color during the third wave of feminism.
Watch this lesson video about the origins of second-wave feminism.
Watch this lesson video where President Obama references the Seneca Fall Convention during his second inaugural address.
