Racist policies often kept African-American women out of the suffragist movement.
The headquarters of Colored Women Voters, located in Georgia, was one of many early 20th-century organizations that fought for African-American suffrage. |
Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, seated in chair, facing front, probably at her home in Auburn, New York, 1911
Illustration in: Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller, Elizabeth Smith Miller. New York: Geneva, 1897-1911, section 16, no. 9, p. 47. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress). |