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African American women held together Black households and their communities while adapting and overcoming obstacles they faced due to their gender, race, and class. [3] Many women used their communities and local church to gain support for the movement, as local support proved vital for the success of the movement. [4]
The NAWSA's movement marginalized many African-American women and through this effort was developed the idea of the "educated suffragist". [5] This was the notion that being educated was an important prerequisite for being allowed the right to vote. Since many African-American women were uneducated, this notion meant exclusion from the right to ...
Sikivu Hutchinson, author of “White Nights, Black Paradise” assessed the significance of the Committee for Equal Justice and Recy Taylor by saying, “Her case became a major catalyst for black women’s civil rights resistance and the intersectional connection between sexual violence and state violence.” [18] Feminist scholars assert ...
Black women's clubs helped raise money for the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star. [25] Many black churches owed their existence to the dedicated work of African-American women organizing in their communities. [52] Black women's literary clubs began to show up as early as 1831, with the Female Literary Society of Philadelphia. [53]
Black women have been involved in American socio-political issues and advocating for the community since the American Civil War era through organizations, clubs, community-based social services, and advocacy. Black women are currently underrepresented in the United States in both elected offices and in policy made by elected officials. [1]
In 2025, Wells was honored on a U.S. quarter part of the final year of the American Women quarters program. [169] [170] The quarter's launch was celebrated at Chicago's DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center in partnership with the United States Mint and the National Women's History Museum on February 12, 2025. [171] [172]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
National Afro-American League; National Alliance of Black School Educators; National Black Justice Coalition; National Black United Front; National Council of Negro Women; National Equal Rights League; National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association; National Federation of Colored Farmers; National Independent Political League