February 01, 2020
“But we’ll have our rights”: Black Suffragists Exhibit
Open gallery
Centennial Commemoration: 19th Amendment 1920-2020
Exhibit: But we’ll have our rights : Black Suffragists and Their Push for the Vote
February 1, 2020-January 15, 2021
Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College
Portland OR
Additional Exhibit Resource Companion
- Sojourner Truth (1851). “Ain’t I a Woman?” Original speech contrasted with later, more famous, version
- Sojourner Truth’s original “Ain’t I a Woman” speech read by Black Dutch women to get a sense of what her Dutch-American accent could have sounded like
- Sojourner Truth (1853) speech, What Time of Night It Is
- Harriet Tubman Swing Low sculpture in Harlem, New York City
- Francis Ellen Watkins Harper (1866). Speech to the 11th Women’s Rights Convention
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
- Fannie Barrier Williams
- Mary Church Terrell
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Septima Poinsette Clark
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Lewis & Clark Law (Northwestern College of Law) 1922
- Beatrice Morrow Cannady video
- Lizzie Koontz Weeks
- Harriet “Hattie” Redmond
- Oregon suffrage
- Visit Harriet “Hattie” Redmond’s Portland grave in Lone Fir Cemetery to say thanks
- Frederick Douglass (1888). Speech to International Council of Women
- Angela Davis (2008) remarks on the voter disenfranchisement of people with felonies
- Check out a former Black Portland hub that was a meeting spot in the 1920’s, the Golden West Hotel (NW Everett and Broadway)
