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My Grandmother Calls Me Every Election Day. Here’s Why That Matters. | Forbes

October 17, 2018African American Vote, Black Vote ...

Ferrisa Connell Forbes President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 while Martin Luther King and others look on. Featured Image [dropcap]Each[/dropcap] November, my now 93-year-old grandmother dresses up to cast her vote in-person at her local precinct. Perhaps more importantly, she also calls each of her kids and grandchildren to remind […]

Opinion: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | The New York Times

July 31, 2018African American Activist, African American History ...

Its worst offenses may be that it rendered nearly invisible the black women who labored in the suffragist vineyard and that it looked away from the racism that tightened its grip on the fight for the women’s vote in the years after the Civil War.