“Yet She Is Advancing: New Orleans Women and the Right to Vote, 1878–1970" at THNOC
The Historic New Orleans Collection 533 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
When the 19th Amendment granting American women the right to vote in elections was passed in 1920, a large swath of Louisiana's women were still disenfranchised. Louisiana laws at that point still denied Black women voting rights, and African American women would continue to fight for their right to participate in democracy until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. A new exhibition at THNOC that expands a virtual exhibition from 2020 will explore the ways Black and white women came together during this period to pursue suffrage for all women in Louisiana. hnoc.org.
