For my final project based on the 2017 International Women’s March, I have started researching and learning about the history of protests taking place in Washington, DC, including the 1913 Women’s Suffrage March. I have looked into using a timeline plugin on the Omeka Word Press website, in order to show the chronology of peaceful protest marches that took place in Washington, DC.

My challenge at the moment is trying to determine how to organize a lesson around the 2017 International Women’s March, and how much weight to give, or time to spend on the history of protests in Washington, DC, and how much to emphasize the greater human rights issues that women are facing globally. So I’m trying to place the 2017 Women’s March into the greater context of women’s rights in history, without going down too many rabbit holes or veering too far off course when there is a time crunch factor. 

My next steps are to continue to solidify an outline, and to decide what specific information to include. I also plan on creating a compare and contrast chart or some sort of activity showing how to compare and contrasts the 1913 Women’s Suffrage March and the 2017 International Women’s March. 

One image I plan on using in the project is this poster: 

I selected this image because it shows a personal connection between the 1913 Women’s March for Suffrage and the 2017 Women’s March. I hope to help the audience see that we are not very far removed from the fight for the right to vote.