Black women in history
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Black Suffrage Leaders Fought for Freedom and Against Stereotypes
As the centennial anniversary of the suffrage movement approaches, many historians are working to spread the word about the critical…
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‘Ain’t I a Woman?’: Sojourner Truth Proved the Strongest of All
At the 1851 Women's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered what is now recognized as one of…
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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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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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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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Abolitionist and Women’s Suffrage Heroine
History shows that Stewart was the first African American woman to lecture about women's rights and Black women's rights.
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