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Black women played an essential role in the suffrage movement.

Is the U.S. at a tipping point in the nearly 100-year-long fight to ratify the ERA?

Alice Paul joined the 'suffragettes' while studying in London to demand the right to vote....

Ida B. Wells was a prominent journalist who exposed racial violence in the South.

The fiery campaign that led to passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote.

Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategies and reveals the pervasive racism.