The Fight for Suffrage
Black American men were legally given the right to vote in 1870, but countless practices kept them from doing so. Women demanded suffrage in the mid-1800s, but didn’t get it until 1920. Even then, women of color were still denied the right to vote. Native Americans did not get the right to vote in all fifty states until 1962, and were stopped from doing so even once it was legal. … Continue readingThe Fight for Suffrage