Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...

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

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 ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.

Black women were an important part of the growing women suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1913 in advance of a women’s parade to advocate for the amendment and ratification ...

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 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 ...

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 ...