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Black Women Rock: 14th annual Black New England Conference spotlights women in leadership

Black Women Rock: 14th annual Black New England Conference spotlights women in leadership

A century has passed since women won the right to vote, enshrining suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as crusaders of equal rights. However, the work of writers and educators like Sojourner Truth, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Nannie Helen Burroughs are often left off the pages chronicling the passing of the 19th Amendment.