Black women’s suffrage clubs that sought formal affiliation with the national white suffrage movement were discouraged from doing so on the grounds that admitting them might anger white Southerners.

Its first president was a Black woman, Carrie Barnes Ross. Black women in Indiana participated in the suffrage movement from its very beginning, said Susan Hall Dotson, coordinator of African ...

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 ...

Black women were an important part of the growing women suffrage movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1913 in advance of a women’s parade to advocate for the amendment and ratification ...

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 ...

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 ...

"When you talk about the right to vote, even the women's suffrage movement, Black women were not elevated," she said. It's why Cotton said she believes it's important for her to continue her work ...

(WEHT) — Delta Sigma Theta sisters and several supports are honoring those who fought for women’s suffrage and march the River City streets to commemorate the movement. From the downtown Civic ...

Black women’s suffrage clubs that sought formal affiliation with the national white suffrage movement were discouraged from doing so on the grounds that admitting them might anger white Southerners.