The video “Untold Stories of Black Women in the suffrage movement” focuses on a big impact on the rights for not just black women but women in general and for black people, in general, that was born into slavery. It focuses on the period of time such as the American Civil War in 1870 African American men were granted the right to vote with the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment however poll taxes and literacy tests fear intimidation and later Jim Crow laws were used in former slaveholding states to keep them from exercising their right to vote at the age of 16. The women’s suffrage movement was a life-work that included fighting to both end slavery and property ownership of women. How men were allowed to vote before women, it was unfair because women should have a say in society. Different types of protests were created by college students such as marches. During those protests, black women were allowed to march only in the back. Which was unfair because they are still humans fighting for the same freedom and to be treated as equals. By those protests, women were allowed to go to school and earn their degrees and were allowed to vote. Even today women are still protesting and fighting for their rights in today’s society because women are still not being treated as equally and being treated like property.

I agree with Karina Cruz’s post because it focuses on the different types of women asking for people to vote. It’s not just one specific race asking for people to go out, It shows that every woman is going through it. The reading “One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview” focuses on a timeline of some of the memorable things in history that impacted women or just people in society such as “1833 – Oberlin College became the first coeducational college in the United States. In 1841, Oberlin awarded the first academic degrees to three women. Early graduates include Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown”, “1839 – Mississippi passes the first Married Women’s Property Act”. “1923 – The National Woman’s Party first proposes the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender. It has never been ratified”. Looking at this timeline showed me how many things women overcame because they weren’t allowed to do half of the things we’re doing in society today, such as speaking their mind, accepting their gender, voting, having education, or choosing not to have children. Another thing that changed my perspective is how black women were suffering just as much or more than white women but history class mostly focused on how the white was suffering and how deeply it impacts them, however, they weren’t talking about the violence black women face for fighting for their rights. I just learned that they were only allowed to march if they stayed in the back.