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"We are all bound up together..."

Watch Frances Watkins Harper give her most famous speech! Or as close to it as we can get, thx to @NYHistory. @ArianaDeBose plays Frances delivering…

#BlackSuffragists

Today'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…

#BreonnaTaylorMatters

More extraordinary Kentucky women, in honor of #BreonnaTaylor. Dr. Mary Britton is featured alongside other journalist-suffragists like Lucy Wilmot…

#DCStatehoodNow

Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C.…

#Vanguard

Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn died just over a year ago. I rely on her work every day. #BlackSuffragists 

1918 Flu pandemic

In 1918 flu pandemic killed more men than women - the movement's leaders were unscathed, and the catastrophe gave women a chance to step forward in…

A Black man, a white woman, and suffrage in 1850s Albany

In New York it is said that activists come to Albany, not from it. True or not, in the 1850s and today Albany has produced some truly marvelous…

A valentine to Frederick Douglass

Must be a busy day for my friends @SuffrageBdays! Both Frederick Douglass & Anna Howard Shaw were born #OTD. #DouglassDay celebrations this year…

Abolitionist roots

Anti-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,…

Addie Hunton's Gifted Children

Later this fall I’ll tell the story of Addie Hunton confronting Alice Paul in 1921, asking Alice to invest in winning the vote for Black women too.…