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African-American women began experiencing the "Anti-Black" women's suffrage movement. [12] The National Woman Suffrage Association considered the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote. [13]
Alice Walker's term considers the burden of both leading and providing financially for the family as part of the Black woman's struggle and defines their ties to a sense of community. [2] Womanist studies suggest this loyalty to the community provides the foundation for Black women activists serving in leadership roles. [1]
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party . [ 37 ]
Female candidates, particularly women of color, have long had more trouble raising funds for campaigns, Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., currently the only Black woman in the Senate, told USA TODAY.
OPINION: As we celebrate Black resilience and achievements this Juneteenth, we must carry the fight into November and vote for candidates who will stand up for equality and freedom for all.
Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. UNC Press Books. [ISBN missing] Higgins, A. L. (2019). "Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle" by Rebecca Tuuri. Journal of Southern History, 85(3), 732–733.
While Black, Indigenous, and immigrant women also fought for women's suffrage, their faces are rarely seen in historical imagery celebrating the 19th amendment. Photos give glimpses into the long ...
Love of freedom: Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England (Oxford UP, 2010). Bell, Karen Cook. Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America (Cambridge UP, 2021). excerpt; Berkin, Carol. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence (2005) online ...