“Yet She Is Advancing”: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970
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Start: Apr 28, 2023 9:30 AM
End: Apr 28, 2023 4:30 PM
520 Royal St.
Name_of_Event: “Yet She Is Advancing”: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970
Date: 04/28/2023
Location: 520 Royal Street
Time: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: 0.00
Comments: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution extended the vote to American women in 1920. Its passage served as the crowning achievement of a decades-long struggle by women across the nation to be part of the democratic process. Although divided by race, class, and political strategy, Black and white women in New Orleans played a significant role in the women’s suffrage movement. Yet the story of women’s voting rights in New Orleans does not end in 1920. The federal amendment granted all women the right to vote, but Louisiana laws effectively disenfranchised Black women. As many white women began going to the polls and increasing their political participation in segregation-era New Orleans, African American women continued to fight for access to the ballot. From paying their poll taxes to organizing voter registration drives, Black women challenged their status as second-class citizens up to and through the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Expanding on a 2020 virtual exhibition on THNOC’s website, the exhibition “Yet She Is Advancing”: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970, tells a decades-long story through objects, images, documents, and interactive displays—and through the words of the New Orleans women who for nearly 100 years persisted in their struggle to obtain the vote. The exhibit will be open from April 28 to Nov. 5
Date: 04/28/2023
Location: 520 Royal Street
Time: 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: 0.00
Comments: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution extended the vote to American women in 1920. Its passage served as the crowning achievement of a decades-long struggle by women across the nation to be part of the democratic process. Although divided by race, class, and political strategy, Black and white women in New Orleans played a significant role in the women’s suffrage movement. Yet the story of women’s voting rights in New Orleans does not end in 1920. The federal amendment granted all women the right to vote, but Louisiana laws effectively disenfranchised Black women. As many white women began going to the polls and increasing their political participation in segregation-era New Orleans, African American women continued to fight for access to the ballot. From paying their poll taxes to organizing voter registration drives, Black women challenged their status as second-class citizens up to and through the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Expanding on a 2020 virtual exhibition on THNOC’s website, the exhibition “Yet She Is Advancing”: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970, tells a decades-long story through objects, images, documents, and interactive displays—and through the words of the New Orleans women who for nearly 100 years persisted in their struggle to obtain the vote. The exhibit will be open from April 28 to Nov. 5
