Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) is credited with the establishment of the Rosenwald Foundation, an organization that worked to promote and improve African-American schools. The fund helped build over 5,300 schools across the South, including 381 r in…
The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…
The image comes from the Department of Historic Resources. Â
In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote. Â It highlights where there are more colored…
These two images show members of the state WCTU, including Mrs. R. E. Trice, Sr., in the close-up.
Women who felt that alcohol was destroying their families and their society formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a prestigious…