Women’s Suffrage Movement
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Ella Josephine Baker: A Suffrage Champion and True Civil Rights Icon
The Speaking While Female Speech Bank, the first online collection of women's speech from across time and around the world,…
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Frances ‘Fannie’ Barrier Williams a Champion for Women’s Suffrage, African Americans
France "Fannie" Barrier Williams possessed such oratory skills that even her white peers of the women's suffrage movement could not…
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Ida B. Wells’ Brave Speech on Lynching During Suffrage Movement
On Feb. 13, 1893, Wells delivered a scathing rebuke of lynching in front of a mostly white and angry audience…
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Professor’s Book Chronicles Struggles, Heroics of Black Women of the Suffrage Movement
As the centennial anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States approaches, talk…
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Suffragist Helen Appo Cook: Wealthy Champion of the Poor
Helen Appo Cook put her life on the line for women's suffrage.
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Remembering Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, an Educator of Black Women Suffrage
Perhaps no one has done as much research and educating the masses about the history of Black women in the…
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McKINNEY: Redefining Suffrage, Unerasing Black Women
Can we unpack the significance of suffrage and inclusive democracy for Black women?
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Suffrage Efforts Find Defeat in Senate Only Months Before 19th Amendment Passed
On Jan. 25, 1887, some 133 years ago, the first vote on women's suffrage took place in the U.S. Senate.
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Apathy Remains as 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage Approaches
The suffrage movement undoubtedly left many scars, and today African American women still look back with apathy because of the…
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Readers Invited to Share Experiences in WI’s Women Suffrage Series
Through our series, our readers were reminded that the fight for the right of women to vote had met various…
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