How Black Suffragists Fought for the Right to Vote and a Modicum of Respect

Prtrait of Hallie Quinn Brown

Hallie Quinn Brown and Other “Homespun Heroines” By Martha S. Jones Hallie Quinn Brown knew the power of black women and urged anyone who heard her to let it flourish. Read her remarks from 1889 and you might believe she saw the future or at least had the capacity to call it into being: “I […]