19th Amendment Passes but Southern States Continue Blocking Black Women from Voting

The 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920, but poll taxes, literacy tests, and violence continued to be applied to Black women in Southern states. Black women's voter registration remained near zero in Deep South states. White suffragist organizations made no effort to enforce Black women's voting rights. The amendment's promise was not extended to Black women in practice until the Voting Rights Act of 1965.