Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony could potentially come up in three places in the Waldorf curriculum, and I love teaching about her so I'm making myself some notes! She could be part of

grade 2 - Heroes

grade 3 - Currency

grade 8 - U.S. History

Story for Grade 2/3

I would recommend


Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
by Claire Rudolf Murphy

Story for Grade 8

I would recommend


How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
by Georgia Bragg
pp.88-97

Mapping Activity

Regardless of what story you use, I highly recommend doing this mapping activity (which I invented today while working with a child) after the story.

print Blank United States Map (I like this one from TpT)

read aloud the list of states/territories which granted full voting rights to women, in order, from the Timeline (1787 - 1920) in the back of Marching with Aunt Susan; have the child color each state as you go

look at the map and see what patterns emerge

where in the country were women's rights more accepted?

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Guess what I discovered when I went to look up whether the Susan B. Anthony quarter is still being minted. There's a BRAND-NEW and ALREADY STARTED quarters program honoring the lives of famous American women... and I knew nothing at all about it!

*NEW* American Women Quarters Program

This program celebrates the accomplishments and contributions made by women of the United States. Beginning in 2022, and continuing through 2025, the U.S. Mint will issue up to five new reverse designs each year (with George Washington on the obverse). Here are the women & designs so far:

2022

• Maya Angelou – celebrated writer, performer, and social activist
• Dr. Sally Ride – physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space
• Wilma Mankiller – first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
• Nina Otero-Warren – a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first woman superintendent of Santa Fe public schools
• Anna May Wong – first Chinese American film star in Hollywood

2023

• Bessie Coleman - first African American and first Native American woman pilot
• Edith Kanaka'ole - indigenous Hawaiian composer, custodian of native culture and traditions
• Eleanor Roosevelt - first lady, author, and civil liberties advocate
• Jovita Idar - Mexican-American journalist, activist, teacher, and suffragist
• Maria Tallchief - America's first prima ballerina

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