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Estelle Hall Young (1884-1938) was a leader of the
African-American women's suffrage movement African-American women began to agitate for political rights in the 1830s, creating the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, and New York Female Anti-Slavery Society. These interracial groups were radical ...
in
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. She founded the Colored Women's Suffrage Club and worked tirelessly to support suffrage for African-American people.


Biography

Estelle Hall was born in Georgia in 1884. She studied to be a teacher at Spelman College and
Atlanta University Clark Atlanta University (CAU or Clark Atlanta) is a private, Methodist, historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark Atlanta is the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in the Southern United States. Founde ...
. She studied under
W.E.B. DuBois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...
at Spelman. She taught in Atlanta until she moved to Baltimore in 1905. In Baltimore, she married Dr. Howard E. Young, the first Black owner-and-operator of a pharmacy. They had three children together: two sons and one daughter. Their daughter N. Louise Young became the first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.


Suffrage activism

Young established a Colored Women's Suffrage Club in West Baltimore and became its first president in 1915. The organization was also called the Progressive Suffrage Club. The club eventually outgrew the living rooms where they were held, and they moved to the Colored
Y.W.C.A. The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls in more than 100 countries. The World office is currently based in Geneva, Swi ...
on Druid Hill Avenue. After the adoption of the 19th Amendment, Young rallied Black women in Maryland to send a message to legislators who tried to defeat the legislation, because it would increase the pool of Black voters. She continued to hold voter education classes at the Y.W.C.A. to help new voters access and use their right. She organized new chapters, including one in Montgomery County, and led weekly meetings to help women register and vote. She worked with local churches to spend five minutes at the beginning of Sunday services to speak about voter registration, and her efforts made a difference. Unlike white women voters who left civil rights work after the passage of the 19th amendment, Young and her community continued. Young and her husband tested housing segregation laws in Baltimore in 1913. They purchased a house in a white neighborhood, and asked the Black community to help them pay the fines from the city's housing segregation laws. They did not receive the financial support and rented the house to a white family. Young was an active part of the DuBois Circle in Baltimore and hosted meetings at her home. Members of the DuBois Circle were prominent Black women that discussed Black literature and history, and they voiced their support for women's suffrage. Since Young was a student of DuBois at Spelman College, she arranged for him to visit the Circle. Young was asked to speak at the Sharp Street Methodist Episcopal Church at a Women's Day event in 1918. She was active in the 1920s and 1930s in the Republican party, and lobbied her senators to support anti-lynching legislation. In the 1930s, Young was given an award from
NAACP The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ...
's Maryland State Conference of Branches.


Death and legacy

Young died in August 1938 in Baltimore. She is buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, alongside her husband and daughter.


See also

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African-American women's suffrage movement African-American women began to agitate for political rights in the 1830s, creating the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, and New York Female Anti-Slavery Society. These interracial groups were radical ...
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Black suffrage in the United States The history of black suffrage in the United States, or the right of African Americans to vote in elections, has had many advances and setbacks. Prior to the Civil War and the Reconstruction Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, some Black people ...
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History of African Americans in Baltimore The history of African Americans in Baltimore dates back to the 17th century when the first African slaves were being brought to the Province of Maryland. Majority white for most of its history, Baltimore transitioned to having a black majority ...
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Housing segregation in the United States Housing segregation in the United States is the practice of denying African Americans and other minority groups equal access to housing through the process of misinformation, denial of realty and financing services, and racial steering. Housin ...


References/notes and references

{{DEFAULTSORT:Young, Estelle Hall 1884 births 1938 deaths Activists from Baltimore African-American suffragists Suffragists from Maryland African-American activists Spelman College alumni Atlanta University alumni