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The battles for African American women fought 100 years ago for a constitutional right and against segregationist and discriminatory Jim Crow laws in the South echo today as American women continue to work against voter suppression and for full access to the polls. During The nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Black women played an active role in the struggle for universal suffrage. They participated in political meetings and organized political...
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This short documentary tells the story of American icon, Inez Milholland, who broke convention with her striking conscience advocating for gender equality, pacifism, racial justice, unions, and free speech in the twentieth century. She became the voice of suffrage. In 1916 she crossed the country, giving 50 speeches in 28 days. Pushing though exhaustion and anemia, she fell at the podium, October 13, 1916, in Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles. She was taken...
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