“When the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman,” Nannie Burroughs wrote in 1915, “the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength.” Along with Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Addie Waites Hunton, Inez Milholland Boissevain, Mary Burnett Talbert, and Lucy Laney, she participated in the 1916 Amenia Conference that stressed the importance of Black women’s voting rights.
Source photograph: The Rotograph Co., publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1910 (1900–20)
“When the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman,” Nannie Burroughs wrote in 1915, “the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength.” Along with Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Addie Waites Hunton, Inez Milholland Boissevain, Mary Burnett Talbert, and Lucy Laney, she participated in the 1916 Amenia Conference that stressed the importance of Black women’s voting rights.
Source photograph: The Rotograph Co., publisher; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1910 (1900–20)