By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote.

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 ...

Before 1800, free African American men had nominal rights of citizenship. In some places they could vote, serve on juries, and work in skilled trades. But as the need to justify slavery grew ...

“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 ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by ...

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

Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Tillman was a governor and U.S. senator ...

Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African Americans’ right to vote in a convention led by “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman. Tillman was a governor and U.S. senator ...