The matriarch and abolitionist Charlotte Vandine Forten and her three daughters Margaretta, Sarah Louisa, and Harriet’s activism spanned multiple decades and generations,  leaving a lasting impact on the fight for social justice and gender equality.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wore many hats throughout her illustrious life. She is not well known today, but during the 19th century, she was a household name in the United States. 

Resources

1.  Bell, Janet Dewart. “Blackbirds Singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century.” pp. 25-34.  New York: The New Press, 2024.

     2. Petrino, Elizabeth A.  "We are rising as a people": Frances Harper's
          radical views on class and racial equality in Sketches of Southern Life"
        (2005).          English Faculty Publications. 71.   
         https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-facultypubs/71

    3.  Still, William. “The underground railroad. A record of facts, authentic  
          narratives, letters &c., narrating the hardships, hair-breadth escapes, and
         death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom.” Philadelphia, Pa.,
         Porter & Coates, 1872.

    4. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  “African American Woman and the Struggle for
         the  Vote, 1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University 
         Press,1998.

Black Suffragist in the Spotlight is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle. Music: “Passage” by Moija (Uppbeat); “Future” and “Good Feelings” by Aleksandr Shamaluev (Ashamevalue Music).  Cover art: Photographs of Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Meet Sarah Parker Remond!  An adventurous spirit, born free into a prominent New England family, she soared to unimaginable heights during the tumultuous 1850s.
 
Here we retell only a fraction of this trailblazer's extraordinary life.
 
Resources: 

1. Baumgartner, Kabria .  “In Pursuit of Knowledge.” New York, New York. New York University Press, 2019. 
2. Jones, Martha S. “The Vanguard.” First edition New York, NY: Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2020.
3. Remond, Sarah Parker. “The Negroes and Anglo-Africans as Freedmen and Soldiers.”  Hanover Square West, London England.  Victoria Press, 1864.
4. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  “African American Woman and the Struggle for the Vote, 1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University Press,1998.
5. Salenius, Sirpa. "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe."  Amherst, Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.

“Black Suffragist in the Spotlight” is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle.  The music selection  “Passage” is by  Moija (Uppbeat);  “Future” and “Good Feelings” are by Aleksandr Shamaluev.   The cover art featuring photographs of the activists  Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs are courtesy of the Library of Congress.  Please send inquiries to [email protected] and visit theblacksuffragist.net for future media events. 

Born into a family of social reformers, the radical activist Mary Ann Shadd Cary almost singlehandedly led the immigration of Black Americans across the United States border.  

Here we retell only a fraction of this extraordinary trailblazer's epic life.

Resources

1. Dennie, Nneka D. (Ed.) “Mary Ann Shadd Cary:  Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist.”  New York, NY, Oxford University, 2023.
2. Rhodes, Jane. "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century." Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023.
3. Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  “African American Woman and the Struggle for the Vote, 1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press,1998.
4. Yee, Shirley J. “Finding a Place: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Dilemmas of Black Migration to Canada, 1850-1870.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1–16. JSTOR, 1997.

“Black Suffragist in the Spotlight” is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle.   Music selection “Passage”  is by  Moija (Uppbeat); “Future” and “Good Feelings” are by Aleksandr Shamaluev.  The cover art featuring photographs of the activists  Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs are courtesy of the Library of Congress.  Please send inquiries to [email protected] and visit theblacksuffragist.net for future media events. 

Sojourner Truth is one of the most imported social reformers in American history.  Truth is considered the first Black suffragist in the early-day women's movement.

Here we retell only a fraction of this trailblazer's extraordinary life.

Resources

1.  Painter, Nell Irvin. “Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol.” New York, NY W.W. Norton   & Company, 1996. 
2.  Somerville, Laura B. “Gentle Student Bend Thine Ear To My Speech” An Essay About Sojourner Truth, Abolitionist and Feminist.” West Michigan University, The Journal of Sociology and Welfare, Vol. 21, Issue 1 March, Article 3, 1994.
3.  Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.  “African American Woman and the Struggle for the Vote,   1850 - 1920,” Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press,1998.
4.  Truth, Sojourner. “Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time,   Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present   Century; With a History of her Labors and Correspondence Drawn From her   "Book of Life." Battle Creek, Michigan, Published for the Author, 1878.
5.  Washington, Margaret “Sojourner Truth’s America.” Chicago, Illinois.  University of   Illinois Press, 2009.

“Black Suffragist in the Spotlight” is written and produced by Jennifer Rolle.  The music selection  “Passage” is by  Moija (Uppbeat);  “Future” and “Good Feelings” are by Aleksandr Shamaluev.   The cover art featuring photographs of the activists  Hallie Quinn Brown and Helen Nannie Boroughs are courtesy of the Library of Congress.  Please send inquiries to [email protected] and visit theblacksuffragist.net for future media events.