Civic Season

Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. Young people have always driven positive change in American society. They see a need, and they fill it - sometimes even before they are eligible to vote themselves! Watch and learn about 10 young people who changed America. While you watch, think:

• How can your learning from U.S. history suggest strategies for how to address our shared contemporary problems?
• What issues in current elections or local, state, national, or international decision-making are of most interest to you?

Benjamin Brown Foster, abolitionist; Mabel Lee, women's suffragist

Amy Kaukonen, one of the first female mayors in the 1920s; Mattie Oblinger, abolitionist

Rose Head - educating Black voters; José Ángel Gutiérrez - Mexican pride and education

John Roy Lynch, ex-enslaved person elected to Congress; Khmer Girls In Action, Asian voter participation

The Wide Awakes, campaign movement that helped elect Lincoln