Addie Waites Hunton was an officer in the national YWCA, a leader in the New York-based Equal Suffrage League, and one of the key participants in the 1916 Amenia Conference that mapped strategy for civil rights and women’s suffrage activists to work together. Black women, she said, suffered most “from the wrongs and humiliations of an unjustly restricted suffrage.” She taught at Alabama Normal and Agricultural College (now Alabama A&M) and, after Wilson became president, served in the U.S. Army during the World War.
Source photograph: C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C., photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, C.M. Bell Studio Collection.
Date: c. 1902 (1901–03)
Addie Waites Hunton was an officer in the national YWCA, a leader in the New York-based Equal Suffrage League, and one of the key participants in the 1916 Amenia Conference that mapped strategy for civil rights and women’s suffrage activists to work together. Black women, she said, suffered most “from the wrongs and humiliations of an unjustly restricted suffrage.” She taught at Alabama Normal and Agricultural College (now Alabama A&M) and, after Wilson became president, served in the U.S. Army during the World War.
Source photograph: C.M. Bell, Washington, D.C., photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, C.M. Bell Studio Collection.
Date: c. 1902 (1901–03)