[https://www.nps.gov/articles/african-american-women-and-the-nineteenth-amendment.htm]. . Prior to the Civil War, the abolition and women’s rights movements were intertwined and mutually supportive. ..…

“We’ve tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation,” McConnell said. “We’ve elected an African American president.” . Still, the hearing by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the..…

It recalls June 19, 1865, the day troops from Union side of American Civil War arrived in the city of Galveston, Texas.. ..…