When the 19th Amendment was ratified, (white) women finally had the right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement emerged out of the vision and activism of women of color. We owe a debt of honor to these unsung heroes. Sojourner Truth and countless others paved the way for rights they never had themselves. Harriet Tubman Iroquois Women of the Six Nations Confederacy, Ida B Wells, Mabel Ping Hua-Lee, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Jovita Idar, Susette La Elesch, E. Tibbles, Mary Church Terrell, Harriet Forten Purvis, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Diane Nash