Black women have consistently stood on the front lines of history, shaping movements for equality and justice. Activist and ...

However, many Northerners continued to oppose black suffrage in principle, and fears of a political backlash led the committee to abandon the issue before the proposed amendment came to the floor.

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states, but many felt the approach unfair. The Acts did not apply to the North. And in 1868, 11 of the 21 ...

The suffragettes supported his campaign as a result ... This day became later known as Black Friday. Writing in a newspaper two years later, Emmeline Pankhurst reflected on the events of Black ...

But both woman suffrage and black suffrage were defeated. The Kansas campaign also steered Stanton and Anthony away from arguing in the name of universal human rights to exploiting racist beliefs.

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...