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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 goes to war

Addie Hunton was no naïf, but the shameless racism she saw in her war service shocked her. She spent 1918-19 as one of a handful of African American…

Anna Howard Shaw: Reverend, Doctor, NAWSA Leader

When Anna Howard Shaw was a young woman, she wore pants and short hair. She gave it up eventually because she got too many comments, but she couldn’t…

At the turn of the century

Doldrums: a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression. Or, the women’s suffrage movement at the turn of the 20th century. Of course, it…

Black Wall Street

Don't miss 👇amazing graphic novel depiction of the destruction of Black Wall Street, Tulsa 1921. It's "sponsored content" by HBO in connection…

Black women at the Inaugural March, part I

As 1913 began, planning was underway for a massive suffrage march and pageant to take place in Washington, DC on March 3, the day before…

Charity Castle and Laura Tucker

I can’t stop thinking about this girl. Her gorgeous smile, her presence in front of the camera. The photo was taken sometime in the 1860s.…

Doldrums/Nadir

Black women & white women experiencing this country differently is nothing new. In the suffrage movement, what voting meant for white women was…

Don't get in bed with racists

At the turn of the century, leading white suffragists deluded themselves into thinking that colluding with racists would help their cause. Spoiler…