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 ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

Black women have played a key role in advancing voting rights throughout American history, including the women's suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but those contributions ...

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More than 70 years before the 19th amendment, Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention, considered to be the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A monument honoring the women’s suffrage movement will be placed on the National Mall after President Joe Biden signed the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Location Act into law.