So how many black women were present as the suffrage movement started in 1848 at Seneca Falls? Frederick Douglass was there. No black women attended that meeting for women’s rights. Sojourner Truth spoke for suffrage for women as well as equal rights for all for even though the suffrage movement more and more excluded women […]
Seneca Falls, Meet Detroit
Yes. I have high hopes for the Autumn. There is a gathering in Detroit at the end of October. I am of course thinking of Seneca Falls, but also of Julia Ward Howe’s words: In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women, without limit of nationality, […]