About This Lesson
In this lesson, students will watch clips of candidates who represented a first in American presidential campaigns. These firsts include historic examples such as Victoria Woodhull, who ran with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass as her vice president for the minor Equal Rights Party in 1872, John F Kennedy running to be the first Catholic president, Ronald Reagan's race to become the oldest president, and Shirley Chisholm's campaign to be the first African American or female major party candidate. Recent examples include Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as well as the potentially oldest and youngest nominees in history and the first openly gay candidate in the 2020 campaign.
To view the entire lesson and procedures, visit the C-SPAN Classroom lesson plan.
Teachers and students can either create one on the C-SPAN Classroom website or can use the following shared log-in credentials:
Username: students
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