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The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts. The collection explores both the roots of women’s activism in Black communities; the ongoing struggle to secure, protect, and use the right to vote, beyond the Suffrage Movement; and the intersections between voting rights and other civil rights.
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Suffrage, Black Women, Activism, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, African American, Women's History
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is proud to partner with the following institutions in the creation of a national digital collection that highlights the roles and experiences of Black women in the women’s suffrage movement, as well as Black women’s history of activism, as part of the centennial celebration of the passage of the 19th Amendment: The Atlanta University Robert W. Woodruff Library, Tuskegee University, Southern California Library, Avery Research Center, Amistad Research Center, and Charlotte Mecklenberg Library.
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2020
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Digital Public Library of America
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The collaboration is powered by funding from Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda Gates.
Funds enabled partner institutions to digitize artifacts related to the history of Black women in the suffrage movement, and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and the 1960s, in order to make these important collections more widely accessible.
