“If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away. I am going to stay here and stand the fire like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.” -Sojourner...
She was both the first black North American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to be admitted to law school. #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B3HX5tBhE6j/ Mary Ann Shadd Cary...
“The fact that somebody is displeased is no evidence that we are wrong.” —Mary Ann Shadd, 1854 Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the first black woman in North America to edit a newspaper and...
The founder of the American Red Cross was also a suffragist. “Perfectly equal rights—human rights. There was never any question in my mind in regard to this.” #19forthe19th @usnatarchives via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B2RX7vshSRW/
Minnesota ratified the 19th Amendment on September 8, 1919.
In addition to being a suffragist and abolitionist, Mary Ann Shadd Cary was both the first black American woman to publish and edit a newspaper and the first to attend law school. Mary Ann...
People have asked Nell Irvin Painter, the author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, how she could write a biography about someone who was not able to write herself, who did not leave...
The first book in the Ask a Suffragist series, Stories and Wisdom from America’s First Feminists, informs modern-day activists with lessons learned from some of the first American suffragists and feminists. What can modern activists...
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