The untold story of black women in the suffrage movement This video shows the views of female suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Both are well-known suffrage heroes. They believed that white women should have the right to vote before African American men in 1870. Doing so contradicts the core concept of equality of the civil rights movement. Many people also forget that in 1913, the Women’s Suffrage March in Washington, DC separated white participants from African-Americans, and they were told to walk at the end of the parade. Although women’s right to vote was approved in 1920, some states prevented African Americans from voting, and the civil rights movement worked hard to correct this. Although activists strive for equal voting,