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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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Doldrums/Nadir

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

White women lie

Ida B Wells’ crusade against lynching succeeded for many reasons: her investigative rigor, her talent as a writer and speaker, her relentlessness. But…

W.E.B. DuBois persuades Black men

When W.E.B.DuBois left academia and moved to New York City to work for the @NAACP, the fledgling organization could barely pay him. Launching The…