the suff buffs
The women’s suffrage movement is filled with extraordinary, dramatic, inspiring, complex, and too-little-known stories. Throughout 2020, the WSCC created a collection of those stories through our blog series of not-so-average herstory, The Suff Buffs. And now, these articles can be enjoyed as a collected anthology, titled On Their Shoulders: The Radical Stories of Women’s Fight for the Vote, published for free on our website.
Born into slavery in Memphis, Tennessee during the Civil War, Mary Church Terrell became a civil rights activist and suffrage leader. Coming of age during and after Reconstruction, she understood through her own lived experiences that African-American women of all classes faced similar problems, and she worked tirelessly for racial justice and gender equality.
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