#BlackSuffragists

W.E.B.DuBois grew up in Great Barrington, Mass. and kept fond ties to the town all his life. His family periodically took refuge there when white supremacist violence made Atlanta too
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So many talented African-American women became teachers when outlets for intellectual and managerial skill were few.Sarah Smith Garnet began teaching when she was 14 years old, and in 1863 she
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Did you know that the first American woman to speak for equal rights in public, in front of men, was a Black woman? And that she made sure her speeches
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Addie Hunton was no naïf, but the shameless racism she saw in her war service shocked her. She spent 1918-19 as one of a handful of African American women deployed
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