国立アメリカ歴史博物館のインスタグラム(amhistorymuseum) - 6月5日 02時24分

Educator. Suffragist. Institution-builder. Nannie Helen Burroughs dedicated her career to preparing African American women to lead—both in the professional world and public life. As a young woman, Burroughs spearheaded efforts to form the Women's Convention (WC) Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention. Swipe to see her Women's Convention conference badge, which features the organization's slogan: "The world for Christ. Women Arise. He calleth for thee." ⛪
With more than a million members, the Women's Convention became a platform African American women used to ensure their voices were heard—both within the denomination and throughout the world. As the Women's Convention's corresponding secretary—a position she held for more than forty years—Burroughs was a driving force behind its growth. As historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham writes, during the organization's first year, Burroughs "labored 365 days, traveled 2,125 miles, delivered 215 speeches, organized 12 societies, wrote 9,235 letters, and received 4,820 letters." Burroughs later served as the organization's president. With the support of the National Baptist Convention as well as Washington D.C.'s African American community, Burroughs founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls in the nation's capital. 🏫
For Burroughs, women's suffrage was an inextricably linked to African Americans' struggle for freedom, equality, and full citizenship. Writing for "The Crisis" in 1915, she told readers that "[w]hen the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength of which poets have never sung, orators have never spoken, and scholars have never written.” 🗳️ #19thAt100 #BecauseOfHerStory #WomensSuffrage #WomanSuffrage #WomenVote100 #HerVote100 #RightfullyHers #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VoteHistory #PoliticalHistory #ReligiousHistory #EducationHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory #CivilRightsHistory #AmericanDemocracy #NationWeBuildTogether #FreedomStruggle

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