Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an early abolitionist and women’s suffrage leader. She was one of the few African American women present at ...

That fear included embracing African American women in the movement ... asked to become a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1919, high-level members of the national ...

Racial tensions would cause an even further divide in the fight for Women's Suffrage. African American suffragists who were essential in the movement before were cast aside. Even Frederick ...

African-American women were written out of the history of the woman suffrage movement. As the centennial of the 19th Amendment approaches, it’s time for a new look at the past. By Brent Staples ...

organized suffrage clubs and promoted women’s rights in the U.S. The late African American historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn challenged that narrative in her field-defining book in 1998.

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, ...

The air was chilly, the trees still bare, yet the sky was clear and bright. March 3, 1913, was shaping up to be a perfect day for a grand and purposeful parade. Thousands of showily dressed ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) -Across the country, we’re marking the centennial of women’s suffrage, but the story of voting rights ...

But as the movement progressed, the two main suffrage organisations – the ... one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, appealed to white suffragists to acknowledge ...

which was the first suffrage group for African American women. She and some white activists from the Illinois delegation went to Washington, DC to participate in the 1913 suffrage parade.

The important legacy of women such as Ida B. Wells and Sojourner Truth resonates more than 100 years later as some struggles for voting rights continue.