main content “But we’ll have our rights”: Black Suffragists Exhibit

Centennial Commemoration: 19th Amendment 1920-2020

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)