Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded ...

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Just five years later, President Lyndon Johnson established federal funding of birth control for the poor. Although ... Under slavery, African American women were encouraged to have children ...

Initially, workforce needs were focused on provision of care to poor and working class women ... who was still delivering a large number of African American women in the South.

African American women had to endure the threat and the practice ... passed down skills which allowed them to supplement their poor diet and inadequate medical care with hunting, fishing ...

They made it harder for state colleges to help and make sure African Americans and other people ... colleges can’t even have programs that urge women to go into fields that involve science ...