This month we celebrate National Women’s History.

While some schools choose to single out events throughout women’s history specifically for March, at Greene County High School, history teacher Darrin Jackson integrates women’s history throughout the school year.  However, Jackson says that women’s history should be celebrated a whole month because it’s unfortunate that throughout history, women have been in the background.

One important icon that Jackson points out in his classes is Alice Paul.  She was a modern thinking women’s right activist that led the fight for the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.  That is the amendment that gave everyone the right to vote not based on gender.

Jackson explains one lesson he recently had his students participate in.

“I showed the movie Iron Jawed Angels which is the story of Alice Paul.  And I asked the class but particularly the young women in my class that by watching that movie did that make them appreciate the struggle to get the right to vote more?  And they all wrote in their essays that yes they were surprised that there had been hunger strikes and things like that and women were arrested just for demanding their rights to vote.”

Jackson comments that even though he presents different women’s history aspects throughout the school year, it was a coincidence that their talks about the 19th amendment happen to be during National Women’s History Month.