 Hi, I'm Kyra Wilkins here at the Rightfully Hers exhibit, which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment by exploring the diversity of women and strategies critical to winning women the right to vote. Securing women's rights to vote took the activism of millions of women, including African American women like Ida B. Wells Barnett. Born enslaved in Mississippi in 1862, Barnett dedicated her life to fighting for racial and gender equality. Her influential role in the women's suffrage movement is spotlighted in the Rightfully Hers exhibition, but she is perhaps better known for her anti-lynching advocacy. Following the loss of friends to a lynch mob, Barnett began investigating lynchings of black men in the South at great risk to her own life. She published her findings nationally, lobbied the president for racial reforms, and even took her calls globally, traveling abroad to bring attention to the issue of lynching in the United States. In 1913, she marched in the Women's Suffrage Parade and remained politically and socially active running for the Illinois State Senate in 1930, just a year before she passed. As a result of her work, she will finally be recognized with a street named after her by the city of Chicago. For more information concerning minority women in the suffrage movement, come visit Rightfully Hers here at the National Archives or visit us online at museum.archives.gov.