MSNBCW AM Joy August 15, 2020
Of the right for women to vote. That was granted for only white women. Africanamerican and many asian and latinex women were barred from citizenship and voting. Black men and women were blocked from voting by racist local laws until the Voting Rights act of 1965. The u. S. Womens suffrage movement, the way its taught and understood and characterized to this day often erases the prominent role of black women. Women like beabolitionists sojournsojour sojourner truth. And women like the sisters of delta sigma theta, an early black sorority founded at howard university. They ban tousished to a seg...