Untold Stories of Black women in the suffrage movement show how courageous women are. I cannot imagine how Ida B. Wells felt when she moved to the front of the parade where the white women were. What I liked the most from the video is how black women made their own associations. They didn’t let the fact that many white women were not accepting of them stop them from fighting for their rights. Even though most of them were in the back of the parade, those young girls were present the whole way through. I feel like their fight was more difficult. They had to deal with oppression along from other women, when everyone should’ve been united fighting together. Black women should’ve been in the front along with the rest. The Seneca Falls convention is mentioned so much In schools, but the impact that Wells and other African American women made aren’t really touched on. It’s saddening that many white women felt it was right to have them in the back, disregarding the oppression they’ve gone through and are still going through today. The timeline of suffrage was interesting. The fact it took so long shows how long America has been treating women like we’re beneath men. I know that we most likely will never get our voting rights taken away, but it makes me think about the government considering overturning Roe v. Wade. Abortion rights also took a long time for us to have, and now we have to worry about not having them anymore? Im grateful for all the work women did from 1776-1923, and the work we continue to do as a collective to gain full equality. There is more to be done.
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