What the Suffrage Movement Reveals About Race in America
Reading Time: 4 minutes Black women are still fighting for the right to vote 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Black women are still fighting for the right to vote 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
Reading Time: 5 minutes The US is lagging far behind many other countries with regard to the percentage of women in the national legislature — even places like Iraq and Afghanistan. On the 100th anniversary of the swearing in of the first female member of Congress, we look at the reasons for this enduring inequality.