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AAHGS Nashville: Black Women's Club Movement for Civil And Voting Rights (Hybrid)
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Join us to hear Historian Linda T. Wynn and AAHGS Nashville's own Karen Edwards will discuss how Black women won the right to vote, and how the Club Movement played a key role.
In 1896, reformers like Mary Church Terrell, of Memphis, came together and founded the National Association of Colored Women. Many (but not all) were educated Black women of means, still not considered full citizens because of their race and gender. They knew full well that their future would depend on uplifting the race. After the turn of the century, black women sororities began to organize on college campuses to develop a common bond of sisterhood, commitment to public service and racial uplift.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
Register for the Zoom meeting here.
To attend in person: meet at Fort Negley Visitors Center, 1100 Fort Negley Blvd, Nashville, 37203. Please save parking spots closest to the building for persons who may need them most.
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