While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

The Owensboro branch of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), in collaboration with the Owensboro NAACP and ...

“Register and Vote”, 1972 National Museum of African American History and Culture Pinback buttons for voting rights National Museum of American History Sticker, "I Voted" National Museum of American ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil ... such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of ...

And soon after the turn of the century, African American men began to lose the right to vote -- a right that many states had granted following the Revolutionary War. Simultaneously, voting rights ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement that transformed a country in which 10% of its people were ...