February 4 - Anna A. Clemons (1920)

You don’t know the story of today’s honoree. Today we honor Anna A. Clemons, who wrote the National Woman?s Party in 1920 about the disenfranchisement of women of color after ratification of the 19th Amendment. Nothing was done about her concerns.

Anna’s story illuminates the serious failing of the Women’s Suffrage Movement to include Black women; Anna’s story highlights an example of the erasure of Black women from the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Picture Credit: Library of Congress (Left)