Woman Suffrage

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Published

March 1, 1920

Thirty-one states, with a population of 681,325 colored women, 21 years of age and over, in 1910, and at least 750,000 today, have ratified the proposed Woman Suffrage Amendment:

Maine 401 Arkansas 102,917
N. H’sphire 176 Texas 161,959
Mass. 12,648 Montana 553
New York 49,300 Colorado 3,861
Pa. 62,949 Utah 313
Ohio 33,683 California 6,936
Illinois 34,372 Rhode Island 3,178
Michigan 5,318 Kentucky 73,413
Wisconsin 939 Oregon 443
Minnesota 2,061 Indiana 18,386
Virginia 4,124 Wyoming 494
Missouri 48,057 Nevada 202
N. Dakota 158 New Jersey 29,866
S. Dakota 220 Idaho 187
Nebraska 2,369 Arizona 635
Kansas 15,289

It seems probable that at the next presidential election, three million Negro women will have the right to vote.

Let them get ready.

North and South, study clubs should be formed, with teachers and reading matter. Know the government of your ward, county, and state. Master the qualification laws. Register, and pay any necessary taxes.

Get ready.

They may beat and bribe our men, but the political hope of the Negro, rests on its intelligent and incorruptible womanhood.

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1920. “Woman Suffrage.” The Crisis 19 (5): 234. https://www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/19/05/woman_suffrage.html.