Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ... called the “Negro’s hour”: Women should stand aside and let black men proceed first to the polls.

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on ... and convey information about the suffrage movement to their communities. Many black women leaders in the 1880s and 90s were active ...

After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised Black men but ignored all women, white suffrage leaders excluded African American women from the movement. By the 1890s, some had begun to ...

The federal amendment held the promise—or the threat, depending on your point of view—of black women voting ... wisdom get wrong about the suffrage movement? This was a much more complicated ...

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

Two historical markers, one related to women’s suffrage and another to African American heritage, were recently damaged in the city of Decatur, according to a release from the police department. While ...

History of Woman Suffrage Movement. In opening her address, Mrs. Pankhurst briefly outlined the history of the woman suffrage movement. From the French Revolution and the Reform Act of 1832 in ...

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by ...

Renowned photographic colorist Marina Amaral and video enhancement expert neural.love reflect on bringing color to the visual record of women’s suffrage ... flickering, black-and-white footage ...

In 1867 the all-male House of Commons at Westminster rejected John Stuart Mill’s amendment to 1867 Franchise Reform Act to allow women the vote ... of formal suffrage societies across England ...

However, if the parliamentary vote remained the elusive holy-grail for suffragists in the United Kingdom in 1913, they had still achieved many rights for women since 1867. Crucially, the suffrage ...