In the commemoration of woman suffragists it is important to remember that one constituency always kept their eye on the goal of universal suffrage, understanding that only this would establish voting as a right and guarantee “women” broadly speaking full participation in the formal political structures of the U.S. This focus on universal suffrage has often relegated African American women to the margins of woman suffrage histories. This talk looks at the battle for woman suffrage as defined and activated by African American women from the 19th to 21st centuries.
Dr. Elsa Barkley Brown, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland, is co-editor of the two-volume Major Problems in African-American History and the two-volume Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Her articles, published in history and feminist studies journals, have been awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Publication Prize for best article in African-American women’s history and the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for best article in southern women’s history. She has also received the Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Black Women’s Studies. At the University of Maryland Professor Barkley Brown teaches courses in social movements, women’s arts activism, constructions of black manhood and womanhood, black women’s arts and culture, and African American women’s history.
The League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region will be available at the event to register attendees to vote.
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