However, many Northerners continued to oppose black suffrage in principle, and fears of a political backlash led the committee to abandon the issue before the proposed amendment came to the floor.

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Black Women 100 celebrated black women's contributions to suffrage The contribution made by black women to 100 years of women's suffrage has been celebrated in Bristol. Bristol Women's Voice said ...

Reconstruction Acts passed after the war called for Black suffrage in the Southern states, but many felt the approach unfair. The Acts did not apply to the North. And in 1868, 11 of the 21 ...

Black Americans had just received the right to vote thanks to the passage of the Reconstruction Acts and the 14th Amendment, but formal suffrage rights did not guarantee that Black Americans could ...

UK women have been celebrating 100 years of the vote, looking back at the lives of those first suffragettes. But who were the black and Asian women who called for votes for women? The 1866 ...

The suffragettes supported his campaign as a result ... This day became later known as Black Friday. Writing in a newspaper two years later, Emmeline Pankhurst reflected on the events of Black ...