1915 Suffrage For Black Women Analysis

In the early 1900s the effects of slavery were still being felt even thought slavery had ended. Many free blacks had to deal with major racial discrimination and injustices in this changing time of the United States. In the 1915 Suffrage for Black Women. This would be a step forward on the path to equal rights for the new population of freed blacks in America. Nannie Helen Burroughs founded the National Association of Colored Women. She used her newly formed organization to speak out against injustices going on during the early 1900’s. The main injustice was having the right to vote. For Blacks voting was essential towards the progress for better treatment and better quality of live. The right was not a right if a person was black at this time. So many people like black suffragists rallied together to stand up for was right. During this time being black was difficult due the fact that there were limited resources available to blacks at this time. Most landowners were white and were not paying very much, if at all for work on their farmland. The discrimination also makes it hard because many of the laws where were in place prevented blacks forms obtaining what they needed to survive. …show more content…
In this expert from the article she outlines how the vote of the Negro woman is different than that of the Negro man. She tells her readers that the Negro male “does not know the value of the ballot” (Burroughs , 1915) and the there is strength in the Negro when she goes to vote. She outlines this strength by explains all that she does form he duties for the church to the how she runs the family at home and how this will allow the Negro woman “ransom” her race but gaining better control of the voting