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Mapping American Social Movements Project

Socialist Party Communist Party Unemployed protests 1930s Radical 3rd party votes Civil Rights Congress
NAACP SNCC CORE Black Panther Party Civil Rights Congress
Introduction - Chicano movements United Farmworkers LULAC Brown Berets Raza Unita Party MEChA chapters Chicano Newspapers 2006 Immigrant Rights protests
Knights of Labor Industrial Workers of the World 1905-1930 CIO unions 1930-1950 Labor and radical press UAW UE ILWU IWA ACWA ILGWU ITU
Introduction - woman suffrage movements Woman Suffrage legislation by year National Womans Party Teaching Woman Suffrage
Introduction- New Left Antiwar protests map 1970 student strike SDS Draft resistance Underground newspapers GI antiwar newspapers
2006 Immigrant Rights protests Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Labor and Radical press Anarchist Newspapers Socialist newspapers Labor press 1925 Lesson plans

For Teachers: Observation and Discussion Questions

The Mapping American Social Movements Project is used in hundreds of classrooms at college and high school levels. The maps, charts, and data tables lend themselves to all sorts of observational and interpretative exercises. Sets of discussion and observation questions accompany several of social movement units.

Teaching Woman Suffrage History: Observation and Discussion Questions

Here is are several discussion questions for the Woman Suffrage unit. This unit has several elements: (1) Timeline and state-by-state map showing where suffrage activists introduced legislation that often failed and at other times yielded only partial voting rights, typically limited to school elections or the right to vote only in municipal or presidential elections. We show the outcome of 249 measures and the changing map of voting rights for women. (2) An illustrated esri Storymap narrating the highlights of the Congressional Union/ National Woman's Party campaign that achieved the seemingly impossible gaol of a constitutional amendment. (3)A detailed year-by-year history of Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and the National Woman's Party campaigns. (4) Maps showing the locations of more than 400 NWP actions in Washington DC and arround the country.

Teaching SNCC History: Observation and Discussion Questions

Here is are several discussion questions for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Council unit. This unit explores the history and geography of this seminal organization with (1) interactive maps, charts, and lists that show more than 500 SNCC sit-ins, boycotts, and other actions from 1960 to 1970; (2) a yearbook/ database of SNCC actions; (3) a brief year-by-year history.


Teaching CIO Maps: Observation and Discussion Questions

This unit explores the history and geography of the CIO unions from 1935 through the end of the 1940s with maps and membership data showing the growth and in some cases decline of what will be a growing list of the major unions starting with United Auto Workers (UAW), United Electrical Workers (UE), International Ladies Garment Workers (ILGWU), International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Here are several discussion questions for the CIO unit.

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