As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, many politically engaged Black women said ...

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

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 ...

Throughout history, Black women have been at the forefront of social movements, from the suffrage and civil rights movements ...

LSE is the custodian of the Women's Library, which has its roots in the suffrage movement. The Women's Library also holds ... by organisation, by event eg 'Black Friday', or by keyword such as ...