African-American women dealt not only with the sexism of being withheld the vote but also the racism of white suffragists. The struggle for the vote did not end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In some Southern states, African American women were …

In this piece, black feminist writer, editor, and critic Evette Dionne explains how many famous white people working for women’s suffrage were actually racist, too.

Oct 29, 2009 · Watch video · The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists …

Women’s suffrage in the United States of America, the legal right of women to vote, was established over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920.

Mar 25, 2011 · Yet in 1870, the suffragists found themselves on opposing ends of the equal-rights battle when Congress passed the 15th Amendment, enabling black men to vote (at least, in theory) — and not women.

African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement. Edited by Edith Mayo. This listing of African American Women Leaders in the American Woman Suffrage Movement is taken from the works of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, former Professor of History and Coordinator of Graduate Programs in History at Morgan State University in Baltimore.

Exhausted and embittered from the debate, members of the American Equal Rights Association split into two separate factions, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The vast majority of American women, Black and White, did not belong to either organization.

And although the 19th Amendment technically gave all women the right to vote in 1920, black women’s voting rights weren’t protected; indeed, many were excluded from the suffragist movement.

Many women and men worked to win the vote for women, but a few stand out as more influential or pivotal than the rest. The organized effort began most seriously in America first, and the movement in America then influenced other suffrage movements around the world.

The women’s rights movement splits into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).