To the Front: Black Women and the Vote

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the AFRO and Afro Charities teamed up to produce To The Front: Black Women & The Vote.

This special edition publication reaches back into the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives to bring DC and Maryland’s Black women suffragists into the national suffrage conversation. Connecting their activism with that of their 21st-century counterparts, To The Front highlights the ongoing fight for unfettered access to the vote.

Contributors include: Frances “Toni” Draper; Savannah Wood; Dr. Debra Newman-Ham; Dr. Martha S. Jones; Jean Thompson; Beverly Carter; Laura W. Murphy; Lisa Snowden-McCray; Bilphena Yahwon; Nicole Hanson; June Cross; and Leah Aden.

Publication design by Rush Jackson and Jerome Harris.

Physical copies of this commemorative publication have sold out. To download the PDF version, click below. Please consider making a donation on our donate page.