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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
That moment was the culmination of a long struggle, the...
- Mary McLeod Bethune
M ary McLeod Bethune’s résumé was already peppered with...
- 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...
- The Suffragists
The 19th Amendment was also bittersweet to black suffragist...
- Maria Stewart
Maria married James Stewart when she was 23 years old, but...
- Tennessee
22 paź 2024 · Black women have a distinctive standpoint from which to understand the intersection of race and gender and their unique experience of oppression. The women highlighted in here are connected by an intricate network of activists that spans several generations.
8 wrz 2020 · The traditional narrative of American voting rights and of American women’s history, taught in schools for generations, emphasizes the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 as the...
10 kwi 2019 · Woman suffrage struggles in the United States were one part of a long and impressive history of African American women’s political engagement to promote women’s rights and to share equally in the advancement of the race.
Since Victoria Woodhull’s historic bid for president in 1872, more than 200 women have sought, been nominated for, or received votes for the presidency of the United States. Like most male candidates, most of these women received little traction. Until the late twentieth century, women candidates primarily ran as independents or on third-party tickets. Black women have constituted a minority ...
3 dni temu · In 2024, women honor her courage More than 150 years after Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting despite being a woman, Americans take to the polls on the anniversary of her historic ballot ...
While late nineteenth century black feminisms were grounded in heterosexual black women’s bodies, by the end of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century, radical black feminisms came to center queer and trans black women, girls, and gender nonconforming people.
