Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Voting was a right limited to men or property owners before the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. constitution in ...

The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

However, many Northerners continued to oppose black suffrage in principle, and fears of a political backlash led the committee to abandon the issue before the proposed amendment came to the floor.

The event will include an art exhibit featuring work by Black, Indigenous and other people of color and a vocal jazz ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states, but many felt the approach unfair. The Acts did not apply to the North. And in 1868, 11 of the 21 ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

The suffragettes supported his campaign as a result ... This day became later known as Black Friday. Writing in a newspaper two years later, Emmeline Pankhurst reflected on the events of Black ...

But both woman suffrage and black suffrage were defeated. The Kansas campaign also steered Stanton and Anthony away from arguing in the name of universal human rights to exploiting racist beliefs.

The suffragettes deliberately chose conventional and classically feminine styles. Why? Propaganda, explains Cally Blackman, author and lecturer at Central Saint Martins. Hiding in plain sight is a ...