This week’s article and the documentary were very informative. “The Untold Stories of Black Women in the Suffrage Movement” and the timeline “One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview” by E. Susan Barber really educated me about how women went through so much just to have equality, voting rights, freedom, in our society especially the black women. The video explains how black women were undervalued where men are seen as the head of the household. In the video, I learned about Ida Bell Wells-Barnett. Wells, who was born a slave in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862, was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored. After her relocation to Chicago in 1894, she worked tirelessly to advance the cause of black equality and black power. Wells established the first black kindergarten, organized black women, and helped elect the city’s first black alderman, just a few of her many achievements. 

Women fought endlessly for the right to vote. one of the timelines really coughs my attention where 1917 Women win the vote in New York State. I learned that A suffrage petition signed by more than a million women signals the determination of the women of the state (and the suffrage campaign workers who gathered the signatures) to gain the vote. Aiding the suffrage cause is a last-minute decision by Tammany Hall, the powerful Democratic “machine,” not to oppose suffrage, given the danger alienating potential women voters might pose in future elections. The suffrage measure wins by a margin of 100,000 votes in New York City and breaks even in the rest of the state. I thought it was very powerful and honestly, it was needed. It shows that where all the women come together there’s no manpower that can stop them. 

My classmate Myweleman Ouattara’s snapshot was a clear example of the right to vote is still not fully realized for everyone in the USA or around the world. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. My classmate Mitch’s snapshot was very powerful to me because I learned about Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta who is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers. Another example is that women can lead the way to improve our society and they surely can do anything that men can. There are so many women activists working tirelessly for worms rights and I just feel sad even in 2021 women don’t have equality in so many different ways. I hope and pray that women get equality soon and get opportunities as all the men do all over the world.