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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 different than what it meant for Black women. And not just because the fight was segregated, running…
Tags: Black Suffragists, Racism
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 #WoodrowWilson’s inauguration. Black women wrote the organizers to ask if they were welcome. If you have to ask…
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 by @MichelleDuster about preserving the legacy. 🧵 In 1900 the Chicago Tribune runs stories…
Tags: 1900, Black Suffragists, Chicago, Ida B Wells, Illinois, Racism
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 @AlbanyMuskrat recently called my attention to Hester Jeffrey, a prominent African American…
Tags: 1902, 1906, 1907, 1918, Black Suffragists, Clubwomen, Racism, Susan B Anthony
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. NAWSA couldn’t beat NWP, so they were going to have to join them. But neither group was willing…
Tags: National Woman's Party, NAWSA, Racism
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 women deployed by the YMCA to serve 150,000 Black troops in France. WWI thread. Addie Hunton and…
Tags: Addie Hunton, Racism, WWI
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 legislature 👇expanded -- and then abruptly revoked -- school suffrage. How come? Because Black women turned…
Tags: Black Suffragists, Kentucky, Racism
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. @amhistorymuseum shared it on Instagram a few days ago, and I keep coming back to it. Long thread.We don’t…
Tags: abolitionists, Philadelphia, Racism, Slavery