Lesson Plan: How Black Women Fought Racism and Sexism for the Right to Vote
Grades 9-12
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution removed sex as a qualification for voting, enabling American women the opportunity to vote. But although the amendment was ratified in 1920, African American women faced persistent disenfranchisement because of discriminatory policies. Forty-five years after women were granted the right to vote, the 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to remove those policies. Nonetheless, significant barriers to voting that disproportionately affect people of color remain today. The one constant in the long battle for suffrage is activism and organization by Black women.
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