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 ...
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 ...
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 ...