Black women have long been at the forefront of history, breaking barriers, pioneering movements and shaping the world.

Courtesy National Portrait Gallery The suffrage movement began in the 1840s ... called the “Negro’s hour”: Women should stand aside and let black men proceed first to the polls.

Leaders in the national woman suffrage movement relied on ... and convey information about the suffrage movement to their communities. Many black women leaders in the 1880s and 90s were active ...

After the Civil War, when the 15th Amendment enfranchised Black men but ignored all women, white suffrage leaders excluded African American women from the movement. By the 1890s, some had begun to ...

The federal amendment held the promise—or the threat, depending on your point of view—of black women voting ... wisdom get wrong about the suffrage movement? This was a much more complicated ...

Two historical markers, one related to women’s suffrage and another to African American heritage, were recently damaged in the city of Decatur, according to a release from the police department.

The homage is a couture callback to other momentous political events in which women wearing white has played a role, ...

After the Civil War, the central goal of the woman suffrage movement became linking the struggle ... But both woman suffrage and black suffrage were defeated. The Kansas campaign also steered ...

Black Women's Liberation Movement Music: Soul Sisters, Black Feminist Funksters, and Afro-Disco Divas. From the raw soul of Aretha Franklin to the boundary-pushing funk of Betty Davis, this episode ...

Many women who were involved in the suffrage movement continued campaigning for women’s rights ... More on our prostitution and trafficking collections. Includes papers on Black women in the arts, ...

Anthony Day in February. Hawley visited to note Western New York’s long history in the women’s suffrage movement, including one of his relatives, Ella Hawley Crossett.