Adella Hunt Logan
Years before W.E.B.DuBois devoted a special issue of The Crisis to women’s suffrage, Adella Hunt Logan published a comprehensive argument for the vote in <a href="http://coloredamerican.org/?page_id=70" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Colored American</a>, the most widely read African-American publication of the day. 🧵 <br /><br />Adella Hunt Logan was an active and influential suffragist for 20 years. She was the only African-American life member of NAWSA. When NAWSA barred Black women from conventions, she and Georgia Stewart, who could also pass, went and reported what transpired. <br /><br />Adella taught for years at Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute. She was a mainstay of the Tuskegee Woman’s Club, founded by Margaret Murray Washington. As both a clubwoman and a professor, Adella initiated extensive suffrage activities at Tuskegee. <br /><br />She gave lectures; she organized “lantern shows†about suffrage foremothers like Sojourner Truth; she coached the debate team, so suffrage was their topic. S<br /><br />he was training them to be emissaries, explains Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.<br /><br />Voting in Alabama couldn’t have felt imminent to Adella’s students at Tuskegee. But many of them would live and work outside the South, in places where women were winning some voting rights. She made sure they were prepared. <br /><br />Her 1905 essay in the Colored American asked bluntly: <br /><br />“If white American women, with all their natural and acquired advantages, need the ballot....how much more do Black Americans, male and female need the strong defense of a vote to help secure them their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?†<br /><br />Tragically, Adella died by suicide in 1915 at the age of 52. <br /><br />Historian Adele Logan Alexander is Adella’s granddaughter, and the source of much of the rich detail on her suffrage activity. We can read more in her new book, <a href="https://bookshop.org/books/princess-of-the-hither-isles-a-black-suffragist-s-story-from-the-jim-crow-south/9780300242607" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Princess of the Hither Isles.</a> <br /><br />The cover is a haunting portrait of Adella by the African-American painter William Edouard Scott, completed posthumously. #Suffrage100 #BlackSuffragists #CenturyofStruggleÂ
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17/05/2020
Higher ed.
Second & third generation suffragists had much more access to formal education than the women who came before them. Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida Gibbs Hunt graduated from @<a href="https://twitter.com/oberlincollege" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">oberlincollege</a> in 1884. 🧵 <br /><br />They weren’t the first Black women at Oberlin - Mary Jane Patterson 👇ðŸ¾graduated in 1862. Oberlin was founded by abolitionists in 1833; by the 1880s 5-6% of students were African American. <br /><br />Anna Julia Cooper fought to study with men at Oberlin, not segregated into a “ladies’ course.†She won, and graduated with a master's in math. 40 years later she earned her PhD at the University of Paris. She was 66. <br /><br />Lucy Stone was one of the only women in the founding suffragist generation to go to college; she graduated from Oberlin in 1847. She didn’t leave with fond feelings, though. See 👇🾠<br /><br />Stone was younger than Lucretia Mott, a grandmother of the movement. When she was born in 1793, a university education was out of the question for a girl. In 1864 Mott helped start @<a href="https://twitter.com/swarthmore" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">swarthmore</a>. Alice Paul graduated Swarthmore class of 1905. Suffragist Mabel Vernon was '06. <br /><br />Alice went on to the London School of Economics, but dropped her courses to train with UK suffragettes. After imprisonment & force-feeding, she came home to recuperate. Her idea of rest was a PhD at @<a href="https://twitter.com/Penn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Penn</a>. Her dissertation was “The Legal Position of Women in Pennsylvania.†<br /><br />In 2004 Swarthmore students voted to name a new dorm Alice Paul Hall. In 2018 Oberlin named its main library in honor of Mary Church Terrell. @<a href="https://twitter.com/ObieLib" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">obielib</a> I couldn’t find anything significant named for Anna Julia Cooper, Ida Gibbs-Hunt or Lucy Stone. #Suffrage100 #BlackSuffragists
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