Lifting as We Climb
Written by Evette Dione
In this powerful account of overlooked history, Evette Dionne tells the extraordinary story of Black women as a force in the suffrage movement.
When white-dominated suffrage groups rejected them, African American women fought to maintain their dignity–and safety–in a society determined to keep them at the bottom. Drawing an important line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists, Lifting As We Climb finally fills in the blanks of the American suffrage story.