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#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth

  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper an abolitionist, poet, writer and an orator. She was born free and lived in a house that served as an Underground Railroad station. She advocated for women’s rights in general and saw potential that work of both, white and black women could bring.
  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary her parents used their home as a refuge to help slaves and she was black woman in North America to publish a newspaper. In which she advocated fearlessly for abolition. She was helping to recruit black soldiers as well as get black children into education. After black men were allowed to vote she stood strongly for women’s rights to vote.

 “The crowning glory of American citizenship is that it may be shared equally by people of every nationality, complexion and sex”

Mary Ann Shadd Cary to House Judiciary Committee in 1874
  • Mary Church Terrell mainstream suffragists did not want to work with she so she created the  National Association of Coloured Women which helped to organise stronger movement altogether. However it was not only about the vote. The NACW addressed many issues such as equal pay, job training and child care for African Americans.
  • Nannie Helen Burroughs a member of NACW, public speaker, feminist and a suffragist. She found that women’s economic freedom as well as rights to vote were very important for their empowerment. Besides that she, like many others did not only stop there, she also addressed the needs to stop lynchings of Black Americans.
  • Ida B. Wells one of most prominent anti-lynching activists, journalist, owner of two newspapers and a supporter of women’s voting rights. One of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP).

 “Either I go with you or not at all (…)I am not taking this stand because I personally wish for recognition. I am doing it for the future benefit of my whole race.”

Response to Alice Paul (one of the main leaders of the suffrage) when asked to walk at the end of the crowd.

References

5 Black Suffragists Who Fought for the 19th Amendment—And Much More: https://bit.ly/31o1Cdp

Mary Church Terrell: https://bit.ly/37keipr

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: https://bit.ly/3dDq6nU

Five You Should Know: African American Suffragists: https://s.si.edu/34b30lk

This Huge Women’s March Drowned Out a Presidential Inauguration in 1913: https://bit.ly/31mcUyU

NAACP: https://bit.ly/31n9ufh

When Ida B. Wells Took on Lynching, Threats Forced Her to Leave Memphis: https://bit.ly/3486MMu