Lifting as We Climb
A purple silk banner with gold fringe and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs' motto, "LIFTING / AS / WE CLIMB" painted in large gold letters. Part of the Smithsonian Institution collection. https://collections.si.edu/search/record/ark:/65665/fd52a64232d631d4e5da6c891e350a26331
Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne
Text from the back cover:
When the story of the suffrage movement in the United States is told, the most familiar leaders, speakers at meetings, and participants in marches are generally White. That's not the real story. Women of color, especially African American women, were fighting for their right to vote and to be treated as equal citizens of the United States. Author Evette Dionne has uncovered an extraordinary and underrepresented history of Black women. In her powerful book, she draws an important historical line from abolition to suffrage to civil rights to contemporary young activists -- filling in the blanks of the American suffrage story.