Over the years I’ve come to notice how much of history has been changed from its original. It’s like they didn’t teach us anything in school. What is the point of changing the history in textbooks? So many untold stories and so many forgotten people. We only remember those who make it onto the textbooks but even so we learn what they want us to learn, not the whole truth and history. This is the fact for Susan B Anthony. In history books praised for being a pivotal activist in the women’s suffrage movement. But in the video “Untold Stories of Black Women in the suffrage movement,” we learn about her controversial standpoint. That being that women deserve the power to vote and obtain property more than a black man, emphasis on black men. One thing to say is that women deserve the right to vote more than men. But she was diminishing specifically black men. As to say black men are lesser than white men and women. So we remember her as this great woman activist and textbooks have forgotten about her other standpoint. If you are going to stand up for women you can’t go and attack and diminish a whole other group of people who are facing their own challenges and setbacks. If anything they are on the same level, black men, white and black women fighting for a seat at the table. Bashing others just takes away from your credibility, you can’t say you’re fighting for justice and equality just for one group of people, you have to fight for all because one is not more important than the other. 

Just looking at the timeline of  “One Hundred Years Towards Suffrage” I’m just left in awe. So much history, so much progress but so much left to do. You know it was easy, so many setbacks and pushback have occurred. You and I know that there is so much to get done because as women we still face struggles and adversity, we are still fighting for a seat at the table. A span of 101 years has passed since women obtained the right to vote. But at the beginning of the timeline starting in 1776, a total of 144 years had to pass and occur in order for the bill to be passed. Without these women, without these voices, things could look completely different. It is our turn as women to keep that fight going. If it wasn’t for them where would we be, and if it isn’t for us no progress or change will occur. It took how many years for women to get the right to vote but that was back then. In today’s age progress is more achievable but that doesn’t diminish the work of those women. Women can vote, go to school, have careers, not depend on a husband, etc. The opportunities for women today are limitless compared to women back then whose options were limited. We mustn’t take things for granted because the fight is still going.