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I can’t stop thinking about this girl. Her gorgeous smile, her presence in front of the camera. The photo was taken sometime in the 1860s. @amhistorymuseum shared it on Instagram

Meet a suffragist who began her career canvassing Kansas in 1867 -- and ended it in 1918 burning Woodrow Wilson’s speeches by the White House.In today’s episode of Suffrage Powerhouses

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

Later this fall I’ll tell the story of Addie Hunton confronting Alice Paul in 1921, asking Alice to invest in winning the vote for Black women too. +How Addie spent

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

During WWI, Addie W. Hunton led a group of African American welfare workers serving in France under the auspices of the YMCA. The racism Hunton saw in the war radicalized

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

Is citizenship earned or inherent? Did women need to prove they _deserved_ the vote?Once the US entered WWI, women were eager to be of service--especially women with something to prove.

Happy Birthday Ida B. Wells!Her greatness crossed generations: she was old enough to reprimand Susan B Anthony personally for her racism, and young enough to challenge Alice Paul over hers.

Inez Milholland graduated from @Vassar in 1909.She applied to law school, but @Harvard_Law @ColumbiaLaw @UniofOxford @Cambridge_Uni refused her. She was accepted @nyulaw, which began admitting women in 1890. (By the

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

Renounce: To give up, to resign, to surrender; esp. to give up in a complete and formal manner. Laura Clay ran the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Assoc. from its founding in