Perspective: How a new exhibit corrects our skewed understanding of women’s suffrage
Frances E.W. Harper, 1898. By Ellen Gruber Garvey Ellen Gruber Garvey is the author of"Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance" and is a professor of English at New Jersey City University. March 29 The National Portrait Gallery will celebrate the centennial of U.S. women winning the right to vote with the exhibit “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence.
It worked. Although the resolution did not succeed in Pennsylvania, the areas where she concentrated her efforts supported it. African Americans developed distinctive arguments for suffrage. When anti-suffragists said that women should not leave their home duties to vote, African American suffragists such as Harper pointed out that black women already worked outside the home and could balance public and private duties.
And so, when women finally won the vote, Dunbar-Nelson was more than ready for it. She organized black women to cast their votes effectively and not be limited by party loyalty. Her activism was costly. In 1920, when she returned from a “social justice pilgrimage” to Ohio with thousands of women to talk to Republican presidential candidate Warren G. Harding, she learned that her principal and Wilmington’s Democratic Board of Education had fired her for attending.
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