Lifting as we climb Black women's battle for the ballot box
"When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white. That's not the real story. Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for thei...
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New York :
Viking,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: not the history you learned in school
- Abolitionist women embrace the fight
- "Ain't I a woman?" : the cult of true womanhood
- The Negro hour is upon us
- The rise of Black women's suffrage clubs
- Voting is only for educated women
- Taking it to the streets
- The back of the movement : the Women's Suffrage March
- Voting out Jim Crow
- Epilogue: continuing to climb.
