Ballot & Beyond: Estelle Hall Young | Leading African American Suffragist

Estelle Hall Young was a leader of civic and suffrage organizations in Baltimore, Maryland that supported African American visibility and racial equality. In a racially segregated movement, Young organized an African American Women’s Suffrage Club in 1915 to organize and activate Black women in support of the vote. Even after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, African American women stayed highly-engaged in civil rights work because unlike white women, Black women still faced legal voting restrictions until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which barred racially discriminatory voting practices.