The Intersection of Race and Sex: Race and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1840–1920
- Karen Kedrowski (Iowa State University)
Abstract
The year 2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited states from using sex as a reason to deprive citizens of their right to vote. The 70+-year history of the suffrage movement is intertwined with the history of race in the United States. Attendees will learn about the suffrage movement's Abolitionist roots; the movement's fracture over the 15th Amendment's exclusion of women; the contributions of African American suffragists; debate in the American South, which was more about maintaining white supremacy than women's rights; and the Amendment's eventual impact on African American women voters.
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