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Originally Posted by breathesgelatin
There are a lot of great things about the suffrage movement. But there was profound conservatism, ethnocentrism, racism, etc., among the suffragettes as well.
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This is true, I don't know if anyone read the links I included (besides DSTCHAOS
), but this is a telling line from the quick bio of Ida B. Wells: "Wells-Barnett successfully integrated the U.S. suffrage movement when she refused to walk with the other black women at the rear of a 1913 Washington parade and instead infiltrated the ranks of her white Illinois "peers" after the march began."