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14 sie 2020 · T he 19th Amendment, ratified a century ago on Aug. 18, 1920, is often hailed for granting American women the right to vote. And yet most Black women would wait nearly five decades more to ...
- Tennessee
Women's Equality Day marks the anniversary of the day the...
- Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary McLeod Bethune is one of the leaders, innovators,...
- Val Demings
Biden has confirmed that Demings is among nearly a dozen...
- Rosa Parks
Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the...
- Confederate Monuments
O n July 1, Richmond, Va.’s, monument to Confederate Gen....
- Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke, who founded the movement, said there is "so...
- Tennessee
3 cze 2020 · Black women were activists in their own women’s movement, one that aimed to win the vote while also insisting on the defeat of racism and sexism. Their story forever changes how we think...
Black women have always served on the front-line in the fight for equality. Although their contributions were sometimes overlooked in both the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements, their power, resilience, and courage cannot be overstated.
29 paź 2009 · The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the ...
13 sie 2020 · From Seneca Falls to the civil rights movement, see what events led to the ratification of the 19th amendment and later acts supporting Black and Native American women's right to vote.
7 sie 2020 · Burroughs urged Black and white women to work together to achieve the right to vote. A noted historian examines two myths about what the 19th Amendment did—and didn’t—do for women in 1920....
21 lip 2020 · In a strategic move with far-reaching consequences, she and other white voting rights activists opted to cultivate the support of southern white women—and to diminish the role of Black women.
