Those women who registered in 1920 made history. They were part of a movement that was labeled “Women's Suffrage Movement.” Although this period was during the height of the segregation era ...

there was contention and struggle within academia about how to document the suffrage movement. There was an effort to whitewash the history or erase the black women who were involved. Many Black ...

Leaders like Elizabeth Ensley were ready to help. “She was instrumental in leading the Black women’s suffrage movement in collaboration with the white women’s suffrage movement," Balik said.

Many women played a pivotal role during the women’s suffrage movement of the early 1900s ... role when it came to voting rights and Black civil rights in Oregon. Redmond was born in St. Louis ...

“Like many Black women of the period ... “Grand Rapids played an important part in the women’s suffrage movement and in activism afterwards to get citizens to use their votes and to try ...

Galloway Higgins’ work is just one example of the deep impact Black women had on the women’s suffrage movement in the early 20th century. Figures like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady ...

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in 1913 for a parade of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she learned that white organizers wanted Black women to march at the back so as ...

Black women were intentionally left out of the suffrage movement, and restrictive laws and regulations prevented many Black Americans from voting until the 1960s, when the federal Voting Rights Act ...

Black, Hispanic, Native American ... of a series of more than 20 panels detailing the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States from 1848 to 1920. The panels were on display ...

Black women tirelessly fought on the front lines ... and countless others who paved the way for women to vote during the women’s suffrage movement. Intertwined by their unrelenting resolve ...