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 ...

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

For abolitionists, she cared too much about “the woman question”, for feminists, she was too concerned with anti-slavery ...

The dedication ceremony for a memorial honoring Kansas women who fought for the right to vote will take place at noon on ...

Suffrage on the ballot: This topic refers to ballot measures regarding who can vote. Related topics include the following: ...

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 ...

the signing of legislation allowing a monument dedicated to American women to be built on the National Mall. When completed, the Women’s Suffrage National Monument will be the first on the Mall ...

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 ...

The annual march was first held in January 2017 after President Donald Trump’s first inauguration. Men, women, children and ...

when Congress authorized the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation to “establish a commemorative work on federal land in Washington, D.C., to honor the pioneers of the early American ...