The picture above (who I am unsure of who posted it) shows just how many women came together during the suffrage movement. Many different women of color from all walks of life all fighting the same fight. A fight for their own rights. All the women who did come together during the suffrage movement had one common goal in mind and that was to have the right to vote. While the movement began with white women and women of color protesting side by side the issue of race came soon after. With the civil war at its height race became a bigger issue only causing the suffrage movement to take a back burner to a much bigger fight happening.

While watching the video “Untold Stories of Black Women in the suffrage movement” by the KD Hall Foundation I learned about Ida B wells a journalist and one of the many leaders of the civil rights movement. As well as a founder of the National Association Advancement of Colored People or the NAACP, many say she is one of the most famous black women of history. It began in 1981 where Wells launches her national wide anti-lynching campaign after the murder of three of her friends in Memphis, Tennessee. (One hundred years towards Sufferage: An Overview by E. Susan Barber) Wells exposed just how primitive and horrific lynching could be and it was used to intimidate and oppress African American men.