Perspective: It’s time to return black women to the center of the history of women’s suffrage
A bronze bust of Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women's rights advocate, sits in the Capitol Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall. By Susan Ware Susan Ware is Honorary Women’s Suffrage Centennial Historian at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library and author of"Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote.
For too long, the history of how women won the right to vote has closely paralleled Catt’s suffrage forest: top-heavy and dominated by a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born.
The voices of African American suffragists are not the only ones that have been overlooked. Thousands of unheralded women representing a vibrant mix of regions, races and generations came together in one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in all of American history.
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