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Recognize Trailblazers on Women’s Equality Day

Women’s Equality Day commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 26, 1920. It’s important to remember that many Black women and more women of color didn’t earn the right to vote until years later. Read Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” with its intersectional message delivered during her 1851 speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Also, check out an LFJ lesson featuring an accurate voting rights timeline, and identify ways to take a deeper look at women’s history this Women’s Equality Day—and beyond.

  • Ain’t I a Woman?
  • The True History of Voting Rights
  • A More Complete Women’s History
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Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn

May 3 is the Freedom To Learn National Day of Action, a day of advocacy for inclusive education and young people’s freedom to read, learn and build a just future. Our collective responsibility is to counter disinformation, uplift honest history and engage our communities to serve all children.

  • Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
  • A Call for Anti-Bias Education
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Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D.

Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D., is the author of Storytelling for Social Justice, co-editor and author of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, and producer of 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, a documentary film that focuses on the first class of Black students to desegregate a Mississippi high school, streamed at https://vimeo.com/537431634.