“Indigenous women have had a political voice in their nations on this land for over 1,000 years,” Sally Roesch Wagner, historian and editor of the 2019 anthology The Women’s Suffrage Movement, points out. “Women’s rights is not a new concept on this land; it’s a very, very old one. And the clan mothers of the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Haudenosaunee women, have had political voice for 1,000 years.”
The passage above is from a new Time magazine article, August 18th, 2020: "5 Myths About the 19th
Amendment and Women's Suffrage, Debunked":
https://time.com/5879346/19th-amendment-facts-myths/
On August 19, 2020 there will be a special discussion about the leadership and strategies of Black women during the long fight for suffrage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAkgz7oYPV8
Description of the webinar/discussion:
In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in
1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in
1920. But this overwhelmingly white women’s movement did not win the
vote for most Black women. Securing their rights required a movement of
their own. In “Vanguard,” historian Martha S. Jones offers a new history
of African American women’s political lives in America. She recounts
how they defied both racism and sexism to fight for the ballot, and how
they wielded political power to secure the equality and dignity of all
persons. From the earliest days of the republic to the passage of the
1965 Voting Rights Act and beyond, Jones excavates the lives and work of
Black women — Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Fannie Lou
Hamer, and more — who were the vanguard of women’s rights, calling on
America to realize its best ideals.
The book the conversation emerges from is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (September 8, 2020), by Martha S. Jones. Link: http://marthasjones.com/vanguard/
Additional new scholarship in 2020 reveals which women and women's organisations
took leadership and had influence en route to this tremendous
accomplishment a century ago. This sites lists several other new books honoring the Suffrage Centennial:
http://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/books-new-in-2020-for-the-suffrage-centennial/
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