{"id":1144,"date":"2021-10-19T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2021-10-18T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T19:00:35","slug":"content-response-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/2021\/10\/19\/content-response-6-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Response 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week’s documentary\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0article\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Untold\u00a0Stories of Black Women in the\u00a0Suffrage Movement\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cOne Hundred Years Towards Suffrage:\u00a0An\u00a0Overview\u201d\u00a0<\/em>by E. Susan Barber\u00a0were both educating and\u00a0enlightening\u00a0to watch\u00a0and read. The\u00a0video\u00a0explains\u00a0the struggle black women\/slaves\u00a0had to go through in a world where men are seen as the head.\u00a0The timeline\u00a0provided\u00a0us with\u00a0information\u00a0about the changes\u00a0and development that\u00a0activists\/women\u00a0made starting from 1776-1923.\u00a0They also explain how African American women fought to gain their freedom and rights in\u00a0society.\u00a0The timeline explains\u00a0and gives us a sense\u00a0of\u00a0what\u00a0women\u00a0activists\u00a0did\u00a0to make sure that everyone had the same equal right in society. Taking Abigail Adams\u00a0as an example, she wrote to her husband\u00a0John, who is attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, asking that he and the other men–who were at work on the Declaration of Independence–“Remember the Ladies.” John responds with humor. The Declaration’s wording specifies that “all men are created equal.”\u00a0Abigail\u00a0Adams\u00a0knowing,\u00a0she was married to an influential\u00a0man\u00a0used\u00a0that opportunity\u00a0to make sure that women were included\u00a0in the Declaration of Independence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The documentary \u201cUntold stories of Black Women in the Suffrage Movement\u201d<\/em> talks about the suffering & oppression black women went through and how they were treated by people. The documentary centered on the story of Ida B. Wells who was a leader in the civil rights movement, and she was also born into slavery. Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist & educator. She was the co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She fought for the equality of African Americans, especially women. According to the documentary \u201cThe Untold Stories of Black Women in the Suffrage Movement,<\/em> Women had fewer rights to do what they want, had no right to vote, and were considered less important in society unlike men. My classmate Fawzina Zack posted an image that also talked about these and the image quotes \u201cEquality for women, votes for women, and give us the vote now.\u201d women had to fight for everything to belong. Men were granted the right to vote and were allowed to hold higher positions more than African American women. Due to fear, intimidation, and later Jim crows’ laws, women could not exercise their right to vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Ida B. Wells, African American women were intimidated and oppressed by white\u00a0people,\u00a0and she explained this through her publications,\u00a0\u201cSouthern Horror: Lynch law in all its phases\u201d\u00a0<\/em>which draws attention to the horrors of\u00a0lynching. \u201cLynching\u00a0was a barbaric practice of white in the south used to intimidate and oppress African Americans who created political\u00a0competition. The documentary\u00a0conveys\u00a0and relays the conflict between radicals and conservatives, and male domination & women\u2019s rights.\u00a0Alongside Ida B. Wells were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They fought to end slavery and partly ownership of women. Susan B. Anthony said, \u201cI will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the women.\u201d She also said that women\u00a0deceive to vote more than black men.\u00a0Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton\u00a0also fought to\u00a0eliminate\u00a0discrimination on basis of gender.\u00a0And according to the article\u00a0\u201cOne Hundred Years Towards Suffrage: An\u00a0Overview\u201d\u00a0<\/em>by E. Susan Barber, they\u00a0both\u00a0\u201cFormed the American Equal Rights\u00a0Association, an organization for white\u00a0&\u00a0black women\u00a0and men dedicated to the goal of universal suffrage.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the activists have worked to equalize voting, we somehow still struggle about it today. The discussions of women\u2019s suffrage help us understand the reasons behind the movement and understanding our history helps us see what we can do for our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s documentary\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0article\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Untold\u00a0Stories of Black Women in the\u00a0Suffrage Movement\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cOne Hundred Years Towards Suffrage:\u00a0An\u00a0Overview\u201d\u00a0by E. Susan Barber\u00a0were both educating and\u00a0enlightening\u00a0to watch\u00a0and read. The\u00a0video\u00a0explains\u00a0the struggle black women\/slaves\u00a0had to go through in a world where men are seen as the head.\u00a0The timeline\u00a0provided\u00a0us with\u00a0information\u00a0about the changes\u00a0and development that\u00a0activists\/women\u00a0made starting from 1776-1923.\u00a0They also explain how African American women fought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3946,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-response-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3946"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/fall-2021-gws100-0502\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}