From the earliest years of the suffrage movement, Black women worked side by side with white suffragists. They had as much-or more-at stake in the struggle as white women. By Sharon HarleyĪfrican American women, though often overlooked in the history of woman suffrage, engaged in significant reform efforts and political activism leading to and following the ratification in 1920 of the Nineteenth Amendment, which barred states from denying American women the right to vote on the basis of their sex. Frontispiece of Harper’s Poems (Philadelphia: George S.
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