The National League of Women Voters recently celebrated its 100th anniversary in the heat of the 2020 presidential primaries.
That also means acknowledging a less-fortunate part of the organization’s history, said Susannah Scott, president of the Georgia League of Women Voters.
“In order to achieve the 19th Amendment, white suffragists left a lot of black suffragists to the wayside in order to move forward,” Scott said.
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