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Join us in celebrating the birthday of Ida Wells Barnett. Ida was a civil rights activist and founded the Alpha Suffrage Club in 1913. She criticized mainstream (white) suffrage organizations for their exclusion of women of color. During the 1913 Women‘s March on Washington, Wells and other African-American women were told to march at the back of the procession. Wells refused, waiting until the procession started and then joining the block of women that represented her state.

Learn more:
-- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fySmIinC0MU&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR3orBtlRs5Vhx0pCTMSgBTd6jU4wZ-xCXOv_9WVKweq8RGPZ8rWDuNR6kE
-- Hidden Figures: https://buff.ly/2TPhL88
-- NPS: https://www.nps.gov/articles/black-women-and-the-fight-for-voting-rights.htm
-- Time Mag: https://time.com/5792441/the-suffragists-100-women-of-the-year/
-- Smithsonian Mag: https://buff.ly/2Xd2mjQ
-- PBS: https://buff.ly/2Ag4b7c (1 hr 9 minutes in)
-- Ida‘s Writing; https://buff.ly/2Uv75vG

Join us in celebrating the birthday of Alice Dunbar Nelson. Alice was active in the emerging civil rights and woman suffrage movements. In 1915, she was the field organizer for the Middle Atlantic States in the campaign for women‘s suffrage. During World War I, Dunbar-Nelson served as a field representative of the Woman‘s Committee of the Council of National Defense.

Learn more:
-- University of Delaware Library: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/dunbarne.html
-- Smithsonian: https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2020/03/12/an-unsung-legacy-the-work-and-activism-of-alice-dunbar-nelson/#.XsnsXmhKhPY
-- NPS: https://www.nps.gov/articles/black-women-and-the-fight-for-voting-rights.htm
-- Hidden Figures: https://www.brandywine.org/museum/hidden-figures-suffrage-movement
-- Black History: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/dunbar-nelson-alice-ruth-moore-1875-1935/

#OnThisDay in 1848, the 1st women‘s rights convention was held in the US. It took place in Seneca Falls, New York. The meeting launched the women’s suffrage movement.

Learn more:


-- Constitutional Center: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-seneca-falls-convention-begins
-- Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-19/
-- White House Archive: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/find-the-sentiments
-- NPS: https://www.nps.gov/articles/black-women-and-the-fight-for-voting-rights.htm