Photo Credit: Brian Palmer for Elvatrice Belsches (2020).

Elvatrice Belsches, "An Overview of Black Women in Virginia & the Battle for the Ballot"
Wednesday, August 18th, 6P-7P
Main Library (Gellman Room)

On August 18, 2021, noted local public historian, archival researcher, lecturer, author and filmmaker Elvatrice Belsches will deliver a talk entitled "An Overview of Black Women in Virginia and the Battle for the Ballot," discussing Virginia's Black female suffragists and their role in the Woman's Suffrage Movement. A Question and Answer session will follow. She will be available to sign her book, Black America Series: Richmond, Virginia. "Through the use of rare documents, photographs and detailed captions, Belsches offers a meticulously researched history that spans several centures." She has updated the book in 2021 "to include new and corrective scholarship...." Arcadia Publishing

Free (Registration Required)
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