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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Women sit at a table with a sign reading ‘Headquarters Evanston League of Women Voters.’

Prof. Martha Jones lectures on 19th Amendment, disenfranchised Black women voters

March 1, 2022

In a Winona, Mississippi jail cell in the 1960s, a young Black woman sat for three days after an unsuccessful attempt at voter registration. Her name was Fannie Lou Hamer, and the 19th Amendment failed...

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881
Francis Ellen Watkins Harper