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Black Women and the Suffrage Movement

Album Description

Women’s suffrage curriculum taught in public K-12 schools does not tell the full story. Black women, along with other women of color, were excluded from the greater women’s suffrage agenda and barred from joining almost all women’s suffrage clubs and associations. Therefore, Black women formed their own clubs and associations to advocate for racial uplift and civil rights as well as equal rights for Black women, including suffrage. I chose this topic because it provides a missing perspective on the women’s suffrage movement that is not always considered or widely known. 

More to the Movement

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Compare/Contrast re: Participation of Women of Color in the Suffrage Movement

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Women of Color    Suffragist Movement    Exhibition   Progressive Era    Women's Rights    Racial Justice    Activism  

The Progress of Colored Women

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Zoom In Strategy
  • Analyze and Interpret Various Paragraphs as they relate to Black Women's rights, women's suffrage, and racial justice

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    National Association of Colored Women    Address    Progressive Era    Mary Church Terrell    National American Women's Suffrage Association    Fiftieth Anniversary  

Reference note

Summary: Terrell, president of the National Association of Colored Women, discusses the achievements of African American women since Emancipation, especially in education and in efforts to reach out to poor Black women of the rural South.
Contributor Names: Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1954.
Columbia Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: Washington, D.C. : Smith Brothers, Printers ..., [1898].
Subject Headings: -  African American women--Social conditions
-  National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Genre: Addresses--Washington (D.C.)--1898
Notes: -  "An address delivered before the National American Woman's Suffrage Association at the Columbia Theater, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1898, on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary."
-  LC copy has inscription in ink on t.p.: 1898 Author.
-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Parade Planning Exposes Racial Divides

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Analyzing Manuscripts Teacher's Guide

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library   Alice Paul    Alice Stone Blackwell    Anna Howard Shaw    Suffrage Parade    Racial Divide    Black Women  

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated;

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Zoom In Strategy using various paragraphs

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library     Black Women   United States    Conditions    Writing  

The colored American (Washington, D.C.), February 17, 1900

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Analyzing Primary Resources and Analyzing Newspapers Teacher's Guides

  9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Newspaper    Mary Church Terrell    National Association of Colored Women    Women's Suffrage   

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; [ 1926 ],

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Analyzing Primary Sources Teacher's Guide

  9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Black Women    Polls    Voting    Speech    Women's Suffrage  

The Woman's Club Movement

Teaching Notes

  9 - 12     Social Studies/History    Library    Black Women's Club Movement    Progressive Era    Secondary Source  

Reference note

'https://blackhistoryintwominutes.com

Black women have been no stranger to organizing since America’s earliest inception. But it would be during the Reconstruction era that Black women were able to elevate their messaging and form their own group called the Women’s Club.

Focused on holding America to its founding principles, women across the country gathered to highlight injustices like lynching. The success of these meetings led to the formation of the National Association of Colored Women, where the group’s scope widened to include issues, such as voting rights, housing, and other race-related matters. Despite many male figures protesting women as they utilized their voices, the Women’s Club movement became a vital part in supporting women and their right to speak and organize.

In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. — with additional commentary from Daina Ramey Berry of the University of Texas, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham of Harvard University and Imani Perry of Princeton University — we look at how women uplifted one another as they climbed their way to the top.

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Archival Materials Courtesy of:
• Eartha M. M. White Collection, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
• Library of Congress
• The New York Public Library

Additional Archival Material Courtesy of:
• The Appeal
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Crisis
• The Gazette

Executive Producers:
• Robert F. Smith
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• Dyllan McGee
• Deon Taylor

Senior Producer:
• William Ventura

Series Producers:
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura

Executive in Charge of Production:
• Robert L. Yacyshyn

Post Production Supervisor:
• Veronica Leib

Post Production Coordinator:
• Katherine Swiatek

Written By:
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Additional Writing:
• Kevin Burke
• Kelsi Lindus
• Chinisha Scott
• William Ventura

Editors:
• Margaret Metzger
• Anne Yao

Producer:
• Kevin Burke

Archival Producer:
• Megan Graham

Research:
• Zoë Smith

Assistant Editors:
• Patrice Bowman
• Nicholas Mastrangelo

Director of Photography:
• Nikki Bramley
• Nausheen Dadabhoy
• Stephen McCarthy

Graphic Design:
• Anthony Kraus

Special Thanks:
• Daina Ramey Berry
• Sam Hartley
• Elyssa Hess
• Stacey Holman
• Hasan Jeffries
• Peniel Joseph
• Imani Perry

Music By:
• Oovra Music

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The Black Women's Club Movement: Crash Course Black American History #23

Teaching Notes

  9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Black Women's Club Movement    Progressive Era    Secondary Source  

Reference note

'In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Black American Women were struggling with both racism and misogyny as they fought for their rights. Black Women formed clubs and organized to make sure civil and political rights were extended to ALL Black people, not just Black men. These clubs were grass-roots organizations of middle-class women who were often only one generation removed from slavery. Today we'll learn about the origins of these clubs and some of the notable women who drove this movement.

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Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; Undated;

Teaching Notes

  • Zoom In Strategy using various paragraphs

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Progressive Era    National Association of Colored Women  

Mary Church Terrell Papers: Speeches and Writings, 1866-1953; [ 1908 ],

Teaching Notes

  • Zoom In Strategy using various paragraphs

  9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    60th Anniversary    Seneca Falls Meeting    Speech    Frederick Douglass  

Reference note

Contributor Names

  • Terrell, Mary Church, 1863-1964

Subject Headings

  • -  African Americans--Civil rights
  • -  Educators
  • -  Terrell family
  • -  Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws
  • -  National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • -  National Association of Colored Women (U.S.)
  • -  National Woman's Party
  • -  War Camp Community Service (U.S.)
  • -  Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • -  Young Women's Christian Association
  • -  International Purity Conference
  • -  National Purity Conference
  • -  African Americans--Education
  • -  African Americans--Societies, etc
  • -  Civil rights
  • -  Race relations
  • -  Segregation--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Women--Societies and clubs
  • -  Women--Suffrage
  • -  Women's rights
  • -  Civil rights leaders
  • -  Lecturers
  • -  Manuscripts
  • -  United States

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Digital Id

The darktown suffragettes' parade

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use Teacher's Guide for Analyzing Sheet Music and Song Sheets 

9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Progressive Era    Vocal Music    Instrumental Music    Women's Suffrage    Black Women  

Reference note

Contributor Names

  • Bowers, Frederic V., 1874-1961, composer

Created / Published

  • New York : Leo Feist, Inc. ; London, England : Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, Lt'd., [1914]
  • ©1914

Subject Headings

  • -  Women--Suffrage--United States--Songs and music
  • -  Popular music--United States--1911-1920

Genre

  • Songs
  • Scores

Notes

  • -  E349943 U.S. Copyright Office 19141202
  • -  For voice and piano.
  • -  Title from caption.
  • -  "Latest vocal and instrumental music."
  • -  Staff notation.

Digital Id

Howard University Sorority Seeks Assurances of Nondiscrimination

Teaching Notes

  • Use the Primary Source Analysis Tool
  • Use the Analyzing Manuscripts Teacher's Guide

  9 - 12    Social Studies/History    Library    Women's Suffrage    Howard University    Nellie Quander    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.