Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

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.

Here are more facts about her. Some Black suffragists may not be as well known as their white counterparts in the movement, but they made an indelible impact on history. You may not have heard of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...