African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920.

Correlation of the Number of African American Congresswomen and Their Higher Educational Attainment

“…In other words, their opportunities to improve their life standard were limited, and even prohibited due to the restrictions that framed their access to education, housing, jobs, and voting. For example white women were able to practise their right to vote since 1920, but African-American women were not granted that essential right until the legislating of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 which vanquished the previous discriminatory tactics that decreed the deprivation of African American women from voting (Terborg-Penn, 1998). That has delayed the black women's political right for about half a century, which had been reflected negatively on different aspects of their life.…”