African American Suffragists, Display

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Bysterbusch, Hailey

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Signage with images of four significant activists in the African American Suffragist movement and descriptions of their suffrage activities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Formerly displayed at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument.

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African American Suffragists
Late 19th - Early 20th Century

IDA B. WELLS.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862 - 1931)
was a militant journalist, lecturer, and women’s club leader. Her book A Red Rose launched a national anti-lynching campaign. She founded the first women’s suffrage organization, The Alpha Suffrage Club, in Chicago, marched in the 1913 Washington D.C. Parade, the 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago, the Chicago Suffrage Parade [illegible] a suffrage [illegible] the Republican platform at the Republican Convention.

Mary Church Terrell (1863 - 1954)
was a Black Women’s Club leader, social reformer and civil rights activist. She led the African American Women’s Club movement in support of suffrage. She picketed the White House with the National Women’s Party and marched in the 1913 Washington D.C. Suffrage Parade.

Victoria Earle Matthews (1861 - 1907)
was a social worker, women’s club leader, and author. She founded the White Rose Mission, a settlement house and employment training school for African American women in New York City. An ardent supporter of women’s suffrage.

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1878? - 1961)
was a Baptist Church Women’s leader. Renowned educator of African American women whose National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington D.C. became a national model. She wrote persuasive articles supporting women suffrage in the NAACP’s Crisis magazine.

Presented by
Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emeritus Smithsonian Institution
Karen Staser, Founder and President, National Museum of Women’s History, [illegible] [illegible], Vice President National Museum of Women’s History and Member of Board of [illegible], National Women’s Party

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Leading the March for Women's Equality, National Park Service

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