Lifting as We Climb BLACK WOMEN’S BATTLE FOR THE BALLOT BOX By Evette Dionne

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Lifting as We Climb is the empowering story of African American women who refused to accept all this. Women in black church groups, black female sororities, black women’s improvement societies and social clubs. Women who formed their own black suffrage associations when white-dominated national suffrage groups rejected them. Women like Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association of Colored Women and of the NAACP, or educator-activist Anna Julia Cooper who championed women getting the vote and a college education, or the crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, a leader in both the suffrage and anti-lynching movements.