The American Women Quarters feature contributions from women in a variety of fields, including, but not limited to suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space and the ...

Mainstream, white-led suffrage groups afforded no platform to Black women. Existing clubs for African Americans often focused first on their male members. Instead, Black women took charge of their ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

African American Women Suffrage Pioneers Black women were among the pioneers in the women's rights movement, said Jones, the author of “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote ...

She recounts the lives of Maria Stewart, the first American woman to speak about politics before a mixed audience of men and women; African Methodist Episcopal preacher Jarena Lee; Reconstruction-era ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The International African American Museum is hosting a program March 27, celebrating the achievements of women with African descent this Women's History Month.

Mae Reeves stands on the farthest right in a group of unidentified women in 1950. Image courtesy of the collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift ...

Two African American women executives at McDonald's Corp. have sued the fast-food giant for racial discrimination. In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Illinois, Vicki Guster-Hines and Domineca ...