It’s been just over 100 years since women won the right to vote. But it’s worth remembering that for a lot of that time, as I think Kaleigh mentioned earlier, women of color were effectively disenfranchised. The first woman of color wasn’t elected to Congress until the mid-1960s. Meredith, Anna and I explored the historic breakthroughs for women of color in national politics — and how we got here — in a story earlier this week. The big takeaway we heard from experts was that parties and voters overall shouldn’t really get the credit for this historic moment. Women of color — as candidates, organizers, and voters — made this happen.
