In the video Untold Stories of Black Women, we learn about an impressive black woman, Ida B Wells. She was one of the founders of the NAACP and fought for black women’s equality. She was resilient after having lost her parents at the young age of sixteen. She helped look after her siblings having been born into slavery but later freed after the empancipation proclamation. She also co-owned and wrote for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight.
A major part of her work was dedicated to the fight against lynching black men. She wrote about this effort in her works. Unfortunately, her office was sabotaged and burned down.
Later on the National Association of Colored Women was founded by young college women. They also marched in the march for the women’s suffrage movement.
The video also discusses Susan B. Anthony and the controversy surrounding her for saying women deserve the right to vote before black men.
The timeline we reviewed gives a clear overview of the events that led to women receiving the right to vote. It begins in 1776, when Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, saying to “remember the ladies”. After in 1821, the first National Female Anti- Slavery Society convention meets. That same year Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke College as the first four-year college exclusively for women in the US. In 1844, female textile workers in Massachusetts organized the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association, demanding a ten hour work day. In 1848, the first women’s rights convention is held at Seneca Falls, New York. The following year, in 1849, Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and helps free slaves. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights association dedication to the goal of universal suffrage. In 1872, Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote. In 1891, Ida B. Wells launches her nation wide anti lynching campaign. In 1896, the National Associations for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913, members of the Congressional Union organized a suffrage parade. Later in 1919, the 19th amendment passed both the House and Senate and went to the states for ratification. Ultimately, in 1920, the 19th amendment was adopted.
Hannah Nichols posted a quote for her snapshot from Anna Julia Cooper that reads “It is not the intelligent woman versus the ignorant woman; nor the white woman versus the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman versus man. Nay, this woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. Those words are so powerful and really resonate. In the topic of feminism and the patriarchy, we have touched on this notion of addressing the true enemy or rather the proper concern. It’s not a matter of division but rather unity in the ability to understand one another. At the end of the day, we all just want to be heard and understood.
