WOMEN'S suffrageRecasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. Finally, Cahill refuses to place the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment as the end of the suffrage movement, and rightly so, because not all women gained the right to vote when it becam...
Since they did not have a king-appointed minister, members on the church fasted and prayed, then wrote on a pieces of paper the name of who they thought was God's chosen person to be the next pastor, thus allowing God's will to be expressed through them. The ...
As early as the 1840s, suffragists in New York openly discussed the necessity of making inroads among the state’s working-class women. As time went on, the task began to feel even more urgent to the women’s movement leaders. Not only did the blatant mistreatment of the women ga...
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movementdoi:10.1353/nyh.2023.a902915WOMEN'S suffrageAFRICAN AmericansWOMEN of colorSUFFRAGEAFRICAN American womenACTIVISMWOMEN'S rightsDreshaj, AndelinaNew York History
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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage MovementCarol Walker Jordan
While much of the new scholarship focuses on Black suffragists, Cahill's looks at other minority activists, expanding and complicating both the terms "women of color" and "suffragists." The individual chapters often focuses on one of the activists the book features: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, ...
WOMEN of colorSUFFRAGEWHITE womenWOMEN'S suffrageVOTINGNATIVE American womenCHINESE Exclusion Act of 1882AFRICAN AmericansBy Cathleen D. Cahill (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Where other historians have focused on white American feminists who closed ...