African American women’s

     After the Civil War, women’s rights activists disagreed about whether to support ratification of the 15th Amendment, which provided voting rights regardless of race, but which did not explicitly enfranchise women. The resulting split in the women’s movement marginalized African American women, who nonetheless continued their suffrage activism. By the 1890s, the women’s suffrage movement had become increasingly racist and exclusionary, and African-American women organized separately through local women’s clubs and the National Association of Colored Women. Women won the vote in dozens of states in the 1910s, and African American women became a powerful voting bloc. […]