Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement Collection

Explore how African Americans have led the fight for voting rights for all Americans from Reconstruction to today.

This series of 2-minute videos includes:

1900. The third episode of the NJ Women Vote video series, “1900,” focuses on the Black women who created organizations and networks to fight for social change, often grounded in religious congregations.

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1964: The fifth and final episode of the NJ Women Vote series, “1964,” focuses on civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey

The National Archives commemorates the centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification with Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote.

10/14/20. This is more than a story about women’s rights. It’s a story about civil rights. And women like Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell, our pictured suffragist this week, understood that the suffrage fight was as much about race as it was gender. Hosts: Rosario Dawson and Retta

Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it. In: Magazine: Women of Impact. Includes section/gallery "Five Suffragists You Should Know."