African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920
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"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts . . . It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream woman suffrage movement and specifically on…
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1 author picked African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Until relatively recently the American suffrage movement was told only from the White perspective; Black women’s contributions were minimized - when they received any mention at all. Terborg-Penn’s groundbreaking work challenged that viewpoint through her extensive original research that revealed the stories of Black women activists who worked for suffrage within their own clubs when they were discouraged from joining the mainstream white organizations.
This book is a bit dry and academic but is well worth a read because it brings to light amazing women such as Mary Church Terrell or Frances Ellen Watkins Harper who fought both racism and…
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