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This is where women first formulated their demand for the right to vote in the Declaration of Sentiments.

Women saw their opportunity to secure suffrage when legislators, driven by racial animosity, sought to enfranchise women to counter the votes of black men.

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Cotton States and International Exposition (1895)

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Cotton States and International Exposition (1895)

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Booker T. Washington delivered a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895 to promote the economy of a "New South."

Washington spoke to a mixed audience and called upon African Americans to work hard for their own prosperity rather than get caught up in political and civil rights.

Most white people thought this meant that change was the burden of African Americans and not themselves.

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National American Women's Suffrage Association (1890)

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National American Women's Suffrage Association (1890)

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, veterans of the women's suffrage movement and members of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

The National American Women's Suffrage Association organized several hundred state and local chapters to urge the passage of a federal amendment to guarantee a woman's right to vote.

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A group of prominent civil rights leaders, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, met in a hotel on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls where segregation laws did not bar them from the accommodations that the hotel provided.

This group discussed what immediate action was needed to gain equal rights.

Du Bois and others wanted to make a direct path toward equality as opposed to Washington's calls for African Americans to focus on self-improvement and accomodate white racism.

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Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul's combined efforts through their different strategies put enough pressure on Congress to pass the Nineteenth Amendment, which prohibited voter discrimination on the basis of sex.

The required thirty-six states approved the adoption, with Tennessee doing so in August of 1920.