Women’s Suffrage Movement
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Early Suffragists Overcame Opposition from Other Women
The movement toward women's suffrage had many obstacles, including the formation of the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage (NAOWS),…
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Suffragist Mary Church Terrell: ‘I Am African American’
When there's any mention of the pivotal role Black women played in the suffrage movement, Mary Church Terrell is often…
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Josephine St. Pierre: A Suffrage Champion and Founding NAACP Member
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin especially was involved in the women's suffrage movement, working with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady…
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Black Women Helped Spearhead Major Suffrage Parades in 1914
In pre-pandemic times — the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 — African American women were as determined as anyone else…
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Remarkable Story of Final Transatlantic Slave Survivor Reveals She Died in 1940
At 2 years old, Matilda McCrear was kidnapped in 1860 by slave traders in West Africa. Along with her parents…
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Remembering Rosa Parks: A Civil Rights Icon and Black Women’s Suffrage Champion
In October 2005, Rosa Parks died of natural causes, and the world mourned a civil rights icon. Yet most Americans…
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Race Lens Used as Conduit for Exploring New Women’s Suffrage Initiative
A new initiative that focuses on highlighting and redefining the story of women's liberation — "Suffrage. Race. Power. (S.R.P.) Black…
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When the Suffrage Movement Reached a New ‘Height’
Dorothy Height was 8 years old when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, and women received the right to…
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Baltimore Honors Neighbors Instrumental in Women’s Suffrage Movement
As the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to bring the world to its collective knees, AARP has helped to inject some…
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Pestilences Among Obstacles Endured By Black Women of Suffrage Movement
The coronavirus pandemic comes on the heels of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave…
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