The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shared "Five African American Suffragists You Should Know" to tell a more complete history of the struggle for women’s ...

Many abolitionists initially advocated universal suffrage, for both African Americans and women. When that was made impossible by the insertion of the word male in the 14th and 15th amendments ...

After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised Black men but ignored all women, white suffrage leaders excluded African American women from the movement. By the 1890s, some had begun to ...

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on members ... launched a broad national program of improvements for African-Americans. The National Association of Colored Women (founded ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right ...

In his final full day as president, Joe Biden visited South Carolina and urged Americans to maintain hope, reflecting on the civil rights movement's influence on his political career. Highlighting his ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement.