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The North Star with Shaun King

A New Exhibit Highlights Black Women's Fight for Voting Rights

thenorthstar
Jul 23, 2019
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The story of the multi-decade suffrage movement is complicated, messy, and complex. There were divisions between women, differences of opinions over tactics, efforts to exclude women of color, ideas of limiting suffrage to “educated” women, and arguments for how white women could gain the right to vote before Black men. As we approach the centennial of …

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