African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 (Blacks in the Diaspo)

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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn draws from original documents to take a comprehensive take a look at the African American women who fought for the best to vote. She analyzes the women’s own stories, and examines why they joined and how they participated within the U.S. women’s suffrage movement.

Not all African American women suffragists were from elite circles. Terborg-Penn finds representation by working-class and professional women, from all parts of the nation, Some employed radical, others conservative, means to gain the best to vote. Black women, alternatively, were unified in working to make use of the ballot to give a boost to not only their very own status, however the lives of black people in their communities.

Following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, state governments within the South enacted policies which disfranchised African American women. Many white suffragists closed their eyes to these discriminatory acts. Terborg-Penn shows how each political and racial effort to keep African American women disfranchised met with their active resistance until black women in any case achieved full citizenship.

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