In the video “Untold Stories of Black Women in the suffrage movement” they talk about Ida B. Wells was a journalist, educator, and a leader in the civil rights movement. Ida B. Wells fought for equality for African Americans but mostly for women. Ida B. Wells fought for the rights for women. At the age of eighteen she had lost her parents and brother and later moved to Tennessee with her siblings. Ida B. Wells exposed lynching towards African Americans and them being oppressed. Susan B. Anthony was an activist in the Women’s suffrage movement. Women all over the world went to Washington to protest during the Women’s suffrage movement and African American women were in the protest but they had to be in the back. Even though they were in the back they still were part of the Women’s suffrage movement. It’s really inspiring how these African American women fought for civil rights to have the same rights as other women. These women never gave up and created their own group to work together and make a change.
In “One Hundred years toward Suffrage” it shows us different events that happened over the years and leading up to women being able to vote. In 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband “Remember the Ladies” this shows that she was saying that women are also part of this country and should have the right to speak up about politics just as men do. In 1849 Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and for ten years she helped slaves escape from the underground railroad. I believe that it was brave of Harriet Tubman to do to help all those slaves escape knowing what the risks were. This is powerful in how women did all these things to gain the same rights as men and because of these women us women now can vote and get the same privileges as men such as getting an education and jobs. I like my classmates Kevin Kimble snapshot because it shows women walking to show that women should get the right to vote.