I cried. Honestly.
Thanks to Jennifer Oullette for finding this and passing it on. I can’t imagine anything better to post for International Women’s Day.
Mar 08 2012
Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage
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Change
March 8, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Liked it. But I couldn’t help noticing that everyone in the video is white.
Stephanie Zvan
March 8, 2012 at 11:26 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
That they are. The racial divisions in the suffrage movement were fascinating and appalling, but they really shouldn’t be perpetuated.
ARB
March 8, 2012 at 11:51 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
@Change. That’s correct. In the South at this time there were Jim Crow laws in place to prevent black men from voting, and white Southern men really did not want black women to have even nominal enfranchisement. The National Women’s Party, fearing loss of support from white Southerners, did not welcome black women into their party. After the 19th Amendment was passed, Alice Paul (head of the NWP) publicly advocated for the right of all women to vote. But yeah, there was a lot of racism in the women’s suffrage movement.