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This Study Of African American Women's Roles In The Suffrage Movement Breaks New Ground. Rosalyn Terborg-penn Draws From Many Original Documents To Take A Comprehensive Look At The African American Women Who Sought The Right To Vote. She Discovers Numerous Black Suffragists Previously Unknown. Analyzing The Women's Own Stories, She Examines Why They Joined The Woman Suffrage Movement In The United States And How They Participated In It - With White Women, Black Men, As Members Of African American Women's Organizations, Or Simultaneously In All Three. Terborg-penn Further Discusses Their Various Levels Of Interaction And Types Of Feminist Philosophy. Noting That Not All African American Woman Suffragists Were From Elite Circles, Terborg-penn Finds Representation From Working-class And Professional Women As Well. They Came From All Parts Of The Nation. Some Employed Radical, Others Conservative Means To Gain The Right To Vote. Black Women, However, Were Unified In Working To Use The Ballot To Improve Not Only Their Own Status, But The Lives Of Black People In Their Communities. Drawing From Innumerable Sources, Terborg-penn Argues That Sexism And Racism Prevented African American Wom

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Author

Rosalyn Terborg-penn

Publisher

Indiana University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780253211767

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.59 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14