On Kansas's 164th birthday, the Statehouse dedicated its newest mural depicting 13 prominent suffragist women.

She hasn't slowed down since. Some Black suffragists may not be as well known as their white counterparts in the movement, but they made an indelible impact on history. The list of Frederick ...

However, many Northerners continued to oppose black suffrage in principle, and fears of a political backlash led the committee to abandon the issue before the proposed amendment came to the floor.

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

is informed that Southern delegations of the marchers will withdraw from the event if Black suffragists are allowed to join in. Paul character begrudgingly compromises by relegating Black marchers ...

Not until 1890 would the divisions created by the battle over black men’s enfranchisement heal, allowing suffragists and former abolitionist allies to work together again in the National ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states, but many felt the approach unfair. The Acts did not apply to the North. And in 1868, 11 of the 21 ...

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 ...

A crowd clamored Wednesday at the Kansas Statehouse to see the state’s suffragist icons and family members memorialized in ...

The suffragists were led by Millicent Fawcett ... On the day that would later become known as Black Friday hundreds of women were badly hurt and the police violence resulted in some deaths ...