Sojourner Truth wrote her “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech mainly due to white women like Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton who left out Black women out of their fight for women’s rights... Susan said she’d even cut off her arm before she’d allow Black people to vote before her. https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1298923261330366464
Susan B. Anthony didn’t even want Frederick Douglass standing on stage with her & other white women. Even though Frederick Douglas put in tons of work fighting for women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony & her klan friends never reciprocated that for Black people as a whole.
Susan B. Anthony & her suffragette friends used their platforms to pander to white southerners with "If negroes gain the right to vote before us they will go around drunk & rape your wives, daughters, sisters, etc".. & It worked. Because Black ended up lynched because of them.
Ida B. Wells was a well known journalist & abolitionist during those times who worked hard to advocate against lynchings & help put an end to them. Ida B. Wells worked her ass off while those white women did nothing but push their own self serving agendas & white supremacy.
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