For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review. ★
Dionne provides a detailed and comprehensive look at the overlooked roles African American women played in the efforts to end slavery and then to secure the right to vote for women.
In her powerful book, she draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists--filling in the blanks of the American suffrage story.
Author Evette Dionne, a feminist culture writer and the editor-in-chief of Bitch Media, has uncovered an extraordinary and underrepresented history of Black women.
Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements.
Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP; or educator-activist Anna Julia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education; or the crusading journalist Ida B.
Women who formed their own Black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them.
Women in Black church groups, Black female sororities, Black women\'s improvement societies and social clubs.
Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this.
And they had to maintain their dignity--and safety--in a society that tried to keep them in its bottom ranks.
They had to overcome deep, exclusionary racial prejudices that were rife in the American suffrage movement.
African American women had to deal with white abolitionist-suffragists who drew the line at sharing power with their Black sisters.
Their battlefront wasn\'t just about gender.
Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as full, equal citizens of the United States.
That\'s not the real story.
When the epic story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches written about or pictured are generally white.
The 1913 Women\'s March in D.
C.
The Women\'s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls.
Alice Paul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Anthony.
Susan B.
An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement--when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle.
For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle
