A yellow, black, red, and green graphic with the DA logo at the top and the Global Black Caucus logo at the bottom. There are three photos of Black women, the middle one of a group holding signs. The text says "THE VOTE WAS NEVER FREE" BLACK WOMEN ORGANIZING (1920) Organizing Before Voting. Before they had the legal right to vote, Black women built informal voter networks through churches, mutual aid societies, and women's clubs-educating communities on politics, mobilizing men to vote, fundraising for legal challenges, and treating voting as collective protection rather than an individual act. After the Voting Rights Act, these networks powered mass registration and turnout, with leaders like Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer turning grassroots organizing into direct political power. Power is built between elections. Communities today must organize, educate, and show up in every election cycle, not just on major elections".
Feb 9: Black Women Organizing (1920) 🖤📜
Before the ballot was ever guaranteed, Black women were already building power.
Long before laws caught up, organization led the way.
And that truth still stands today: power is built between elections—through […]
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