Very happy to announce that my new book, And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote, will be recorded as an audio book — just in time for next year’s centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. My publisher, Wiley Blackwell, is rushing the paperback into print for the […]
New Book: And Yet They Persisted
Restoring Black Suffragists to Feminist History
A few weeks ago my great-niece came home from school in distress. “The teacher said I was white,” she told her mother. “But we’re not white!” In the eyes of a six-year-old, people are the color she will need to find in her crayon box to draw them — peach or beige or cocoa […]
Black Suffragists Who Persevered Against White Racism
As the nation’s capital readied for Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in March of 1913, activist Alice Paul made plans for a large suffrage parade of floats, marchers and theatrical representations. As I note in my new book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, states often serve as incubators for […]
When Gilded Suffragists Reached Out to Black Activists
The history of the white women’s suffrage movement in America is a succession of attempts by black activists to join the parade — only to be pushed aside by expediency or bigotry. As we approach Black History Month, it is important to honor the insistence of African-American women that they had earned a place in […]