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Doldrums/Nadir

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

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…

Ida B Takes on the Chicago Tribune

Ida B at work. Another glimpse of the master persuader, via the beautiful 2d edition of her autobiography. Great foreword by @eveewing & afterword…

Racist Propaganda

What's a Rochester suffragist from Susan B Anthony's day doing on a racist anti-suffrage leaflet in Virginia circa 1920? Read on . . . Julie O’Connor…

Suffrage for white women

By the 1916 election, it was clear the Nat'l Woman’s Party strategy was working: a federal constitutional amendment had become a live political issue.…

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…

School suffrage in Kentucky ends

Kentucky was first in the nation to grant women school suffrage: the right to vote in school board elections. More than 50 years later, the…

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.…