After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

The Civil Rights Movement was active from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s. African Americans used nonviolent protest in the form of sit-ins and marches in order to protest segregation laws ...

Angelou’s eloquent prose and powerful voice made her a celebrated literary figure and a key figure in the civil rights movement. She collaborated with leaders and African American history makers ...

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

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

In his final full day as president, Joe Biden visited South Carolina and urged Americans to maintain hope, reflecting on the civil rights movement's influence on his political career. Highlighting his ...

Known as the Equality State, Wyoming was the first to grant suffrage to women. Most notably ... Grace Raymond Hebard, and the first African American Wyoming legislator, Harriet Byrd. AHC holdings also ...