National Geographic - USA (2020-08)
Michelle DUSTER Great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells and a writer, speaker, educator, and activist and demoralized.” As a result, ...
get the vote for decades. They’d begun to ques- tion their subordinate role in society, rallied to improve women’s rights within ...
“W hen the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman,” ...
Erin LOOS CUTRARO Founder and CEO of She Should Run Women hold fewer than one-third of federal and state leg- islative and execu ...
Jennifer PIEROTTI LIM Ariel HILL-DAVIS Co-founders of Republican Women for Progress the 2018 elections. Lim and Hill-Davis, two ...
Reported voters, presidential elections 19th Amis ratified in 19endment 2 0, allowing all U.S. women to vote. (0. 2 % of^1 Congr ...
50% 1964 1980 2008 2016 60% 70% 58.1 59.4 60.4 71.9%of men 67.0%of women 59.1 55.7 53.8 1992 62.3 2 132 (C (^2) ongress)4.4% o ...
Rican women to boost the suffragist cause. They succeeded in get-ting the vote for literate women in 1929 and for all women in 1 ...
As an adult, she argued for Native American citizenship, which was granted in 1924, and founded the National Council of American ...
prohibit states from denying the franchise to eligible voters, who were explicitly defined for the first time as male. Stanton a ...
accepted by the Supreme Court, says llen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: ong Battle for the Vote, “we ourselves be in the situ ...
In January 1917 female suffragists began standing quietly outside the White House six days a week, with only their banners decla ...
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the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). A prominent Washington educator, she chose to demonstrate her solidarity by marching ...
grandfather clauses—that these things are going to keep black women from the polls,” says his- torian Martha S. Jones, author of ...
Winter BREEANNE Youth activist teen has developed a program to promote civic engagement among youths. She wants them to under- s ...
“They are often the person who is primarily responsible for health care in their family, the person who is responsible for elder ...
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BY DAVID QUAMMEN PHOTOGRAPHS BY RONAN DONOVAN AS UGANDA’S FOREST HABITATS SHRINK, HUNGRY CHIMPS ARE FEEDING ON CROPS—AND SNATCHI ...
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