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 Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture shared "Five African American Suffragists You Should Know" to tell a more complete history of the struggle for women’s ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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