Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Negro Woman and the Ballot

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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson:“The Negro Woman and the Ballot”
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-078

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In 1927 the writer, educator, and activist Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson published an article titled “The Negro Woman and the Ballot” in the African American magazine The Messenger. In the article, she posed the question, “What have Black women done with their vote?” Dunbar-Nelson believed that Black women had not accomplished nearly enough since their enfranchisement in 1920. She encouraged them to start exercising their power as voters without bowing to pressure from their male peers or remaining loyal to the Republican Party, which at that time held the allegiance of most Black Americans.

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