Annotated Bibliography
Blight, David. Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2018. A work dedicated to the subject of Douglass’ life, this work includes information about the priorities during the conflicts over the 15th Amendment and describes some of Douglass’ thought and actions.
Eppler-Sanchez, Karen. Touching Liberty, Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. This work provided useful information about the beginning of reform movements in the 19th Century, the role of women in those movements, and the challenges that women faced because of their sex/gender.
Faulkner, Carol. Lucretia Mott’s Heresy, Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. A mainly chronological description of Mott’s life as a reformer, this work provides a good amount of detail about both the Abolition and Women’s Rights movement and the interaction of Mott with other leaders of these movements over a long period of time, encompassing both cooperation and conflict.
Fernandez, Todd. “The LGBT Grassroots vs. HRC: Fighting for a One-Bill Equality Strategy (And Our Lives). Huffington Post. Last modified December 6, 2017. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lgbt-activists-one-bill-equality-strategy_b_1280560?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACQHPjqbwYAH7fCRy6d4b3P_bf2F1_vKIkuNq_o6JYqR4GZMrQRY6h-CVDyLEMfxAXP3un40Ue1T3l_xeP0Hd6B6dAS2j1ZReYyl1AhsQGIbNDO8-CTkvUp8u_8stHiiVHKWUfk7R5EHWkz5gKnNEnwCiC-qfITNLKvbQ4uBUesy. Provides details about the disagreements between different factions about how to pursue equal rights for the LGBTQ community. Focuses specifically on whether or not there should be a comprehensive goal accomplished with one piece of legislation or whether multiple smaller goals would be more appropriate.
Garland, Libby. “Irrespective of Race, Color or Sex: Susan B. Anthony and the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867.” OAH Magazine of History, 19, no.2 (2005) 61-64. Accessed May 4, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2563765.
Goodnough, Abby and Erica L. Green and Margot Sanger-Katz “Trump Administration Proposes Rollback of Transgender Protections .” The New York Times online. Last modified May 24, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/us/politics/donald-trump-transgender-protections.html This article discusses the changes in interpretation that may lead to rollbacks of protections won for the trans community. Useful as a starting point to discuss a current reform movement and provide a connection point for later comparison and analysis.
Graetz, Michael J. and Ian Shapiro. Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Chapter two of this upcoming book talks about factions and coalitions in democratic societies and provides a framework that can be used to analyze them. This unit uses a number of these strategies to provide a developmentally appropriate explanation and asks students to use the framework in their own analysis. Also includes a more detailed description of the “divide a dollar” game than is provided in my unit.
Gurko, Miriam. The Ladies of Seneca Falls, The Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement. New York, MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1974. Although an older source this work proved useful as a resource about the Grimke sisters and their early reform activities, as well as how those activities were seen based on the Grimke’s sex/gender. This source also devotes time and space to a number of different people and topics all connected to the Seneca Falls gathering and would be a useful starting point or source if one wanted to assign biography research to students.
Hampson, Whitney (2004) “On Account of Color or Sex”: A Historical Examination of the Split Between Black Rights and Women’s Rights in the American Equal Rights Association, 1866-1869 [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://www.iup.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=37705
Johnson, Chris. “Chad Griffin to step down as Human Rights Campaign president.” Washington Blade. Last modified November 15, 2019. Accessed July 11, 2019. https://www.washingtonblade.com/2018/11/15/chad-griffin-steps-down-as-hrc-president-after-6-years/. This article discusses the conflict over the legal challenge to Prop 8 in California that overturned a same-sex marriage ruling.
Juro, Rebecca. “Even After All These Years, HRC Still Doesn’t Get It.” Huffington Post. Last modified Feb 2, 2016. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/even-after-all-these-years-hrc-still-doesnt-get-it_b_2989826. Contains criticism about the HRC, a good example of the difficulty in keeping coalitions all moving towards the same goals.
Juro Rebecca. “If not now, when???” In Through the Out Door. Date Unknown. https://lostkidz.livejournal.com/53329.html A short column that adds to the discussion about disunity within the LGBTQ rights movement specifically dealing with trans issues.
Klarman, Michael J. Unfinished Business, Racial Equality in American History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Klarman’s book focuses only on the struggle for racial equality but is an excellent source for examples about how and why advances in the expansion of rights in the United States have not been characterized by continuous progress.
Marks, Jaydn. “Marks: What’s Wrong With the Human Rights Campaign. “Daily Emerald. Last modified Feb 27, 2017. https://www.dailyemerald.com/opinion/columns/marks-what-s-wrong-with-the-human-rights-campaign/article_faa8f768-b908-52d7-9065-05473c462613.html. In this article the columnist talks about her perspective of the problems found within the Human Rights Campaign, the organization that manages the reform movement focused on the LGBTQ community.
McMillen, Sally G. Lucy Stone, An Unapologetic Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Told mainly from Stone’s perspective, this work also highlights the major events in the abolition/women’s rights movements including the conflicts between the two groups.
Mieder, Wolfgang. All Men and Women are Created Equal. New York: Peter Levy Publishing, 2014. This source provided some corroboration concerning the attitudes and actions of Douglass. This source, however, did not provide much in the way of new or different information and would not be a terribly useful source for middle school students.
Quanquin, Helene. “”There Are Two Great Oceans”: The Slavery Metaphor in Antebellum Women’s Rights Discourse as Redescription of Race and Gender.” In Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, edited by Carol Faulkner and Alison M. Parker. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2012. Chapter three of this book does an excellent job of analyzing the metaphor of woman and slave as developed by the women’s rights movement in the 1800s. Also includes great detail about the development of women in the movement focusing on the conflict between the Grimke sisters and Weld about female participation.
“Understanding the Transgender Community.” Human Rights Campaign Online. Accessed July 30, 2019. https://www.hrc.org/resources/understanding-the-transgender-community. General description of the transgender community, used here to demonstrate the small size when viewed as a percentage of total population.
Villarreal, Yezmin. “5 Most Disappointing Things We Learned about HRC’s White Men’s Club.” The Advocate. Last modified June 4, 2015. https://www.advocate.com/human-rights-campaign-hrc/2015/06/04/5-most-disappointing-things-we-learned-about-hrcs-white-mens-cl. This article again discusses some of the shortcomings found within HRC and contains more detail than the Marks column.
Walker, Jay. “Frederick Douglass and Woman Suffrage.” The Black Scholar, 14 no. 5 (Sept-Oct 1983) 18-25. Accessed May 5, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067047. Although not cited in the unit this work outlines Douglass’ participation and assistance in the women’s rights movement of the 19th Century.
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