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 ...

they were ultimately shut out from the suffrage movement. More: ‘Brilliant and politically savvy:’ The roles of African ...

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 ...

Anthony, with support from African Americans like Sojourner ... Stone and Blackwell formed a rival organization—the American Woman Suffrage Association—that included men as well as women ...

Later, she and Stanton co-published the four-volume The History of Woman Suffrage. A fearless activist ... Truth worked on behalf of both African American soldiers and newly freed slaves.

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

Sarah Parker Remond was an African-American lecturer on anti-slavery ... It may be that black and minority ethnic men and women did support the women's suffrage campaign, and that they have ...

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

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

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