Frederick Douglass, a leader in the abolitionist movement, is celebrated yearly on Feb. 14. Douglass was born into bondage and never knew his birthdate, so he chose to celebrate it
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Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American studies and co-director of the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. Denise Burgher is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Delaware and project coordinator for The Colored Conventions project. They talked with us about about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in political organizing.
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Cheraine Stanford: Welcome to Take Note on WPSU. I m Cheraine Stanford. 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th amendment that secured the right to vote for women in the United States. But that right to vote did not include all women. Black women and other women of color would continue to fight for the right to vote for decades. To talk more about the contributions of black women to the suffrage movement and the role of black women in organizing, I m joined by Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State associate prof