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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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In this way, it might be easy to fall into the idea that clothing is as symbolically frivolous as the fashion naysayers often ...

The African American Museum in Philadelphia was understandably ... is often linked to the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. It depicts a woman, dressed in the style of ancient Egyptians, looking ...

Honoring the legacy of the civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. meant a day of prayer, music, art, community, and remembrance in Elkhart.