Voting rights struggles are not new for African Americans. On Saturday, Oct. 15, Brooklynites gathered to celebrate four notable women who fought in the early 1900s to ensure that African American women had the right to vote.
, members of Alpha Kappa Alpha’s local Psi Lambda Omega chapter, and area residents to take part in honoring these early activists. Dr. Judith A. Burgess served as the host of the ceremony at Cuyler Gore Park, which is across the street from the New Carlton Rehabilitation & Nursing Center building at 405 Carlton Street—the former site of the YMCA, where the ESL used to hold their meetings.
“Now,” she said, referencing get-out-the-vote efforts today, “we have to make sure that we have a democracy.” State Attorney General Tish James attended the ceremony—she is from the neighborhood and wanted to add her praise for the ESL activists and their efforts to push for passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote: “It was a long, frustrating, and arduous effort, one in which our ancestors and our great grandmothers and our grandmothers, and—for some of us—our mothers never received proper credit for in the struggle. And the struggle, unfortunately, continues,” James said.
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