In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...
While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...
A mockup of the mural by Phyllis Garibay-Coon to be installed in the Kansas State Capitol on Kansas Day. Honorees include suffragists from WaKeeney and Larned. Courtesy image The Kansas Suffragist ...