Browse Items (52 total)
Sojourner speaksDay 1! Counting down 366* days to the centennial of the 19th Amendment. So much to tell, so much to learn. No better leader to begin with than…
Sarah Remond & motherNancy Lenox & Sarah Parker Remond were mother/daughter free Black women & leading abolitionists. Sarah 👇 traveled & lectured on…
The first men to vote for womenIn 1893, men in Colorado voted to let women vote - the first time such a thing had ever happened. 16 years earlier a referendum failed in CO - just…
The Daughters of ZionAll the women at Seneca Falls were white, but the very same year a group of African American women also organized for equal rights. The Daughters of…
The New Departure - Mary Ann Shadd Cary & Frederick DouglassIn the spring of 1871, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Frederick Douglass led at least 63 Black & white women to attempt to register to vote in Washington…
#BlackSuffragistsToday's post is this great montage of Black women suffrage leaders. So worth 3 minutes, and a preview of some of what I'll cover over the next few…
Abolitionist rootsAnti-Blackness shaped the suffrage movement from very early on. Over and over, white women appealed to racism to argue for the vote: how awful it is,…
The most significant manI’m chasing down a citation, so you’ll have to wait to hear from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, one of few Black women on the record in these debates.…
You white women speak of rights...All the women are white, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave. The title of the landmark Black feminist anthology is the essence of…
Black suffragists after the American/National splitAs Lucy Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Assoc and Stanton/Anthony’s National WSA warred through the 1870’s, where were African-American women? Mostly…