Suffragettes Who Sucked: White Supremacy And Women's Rights

The Suffrage Movement's White Supremacy Problem
View of women riding in a Hay Wagon float in a suffrage parade to New York's City Hall, 1913. A banner hanging upon the float quotes Tennyson's phrase 'The Woman's Cause Is Man's; They Rise Or Fall Together'. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
View of women riding in a Hay Wagon float in a suffrage parade to New York's City Hall, 1913. A banner hanging upon the float quotes Tennyson's phrase 'The Woman's Cause Is Man's; They Rise Or Fall Together'. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Suffragette: Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906 (Social reformer, member of the Anti-Slavery Society, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association)

Hooray: “I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”

Wait, What: “Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the Negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sex and take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.”

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