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A review by rebekahjenkins
She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn
3.0
It’s informative and acknowledges how disenfranchised BIWOC were even with the passing of the amendment and still are, it’s just the informal conversation-like writing bugs me a bit. If you can glance over it, a really nice refresher on women’s history.
Edit: I need to add more because it is so racist how many people look up to the pioneers of women's suffrage like Cady Stanton, Anthony, and Mott and forget that women of color were not invited to the Seneca Falls Convention. How they demanded women, white women, obtain suffrage before black men. How Audre Lorde, years later, would still be fighting over how she has to overcome both her sex and her race for equal treatment. I'm thinking of how many women flock to Susan B. Anthony's grave with their "I Voted!" stickers and how many of them must be white and/or not care about the people excluded from the movement. White women putting themselves first and thinking they are the best really goes back that far, and of course even farther. It's great there was a movement, but would it really have been so terrible to demand the inclusion of the black/Indigenous communities in the amendment?
Edit: I need to add more because it is so racist how many people look up to the pioneers of women's suffrage like Cady Stanton, Anthony, and Mott and forget that women of color were not invited to the Seneca Falls Convention. How they demanded women, white women, obtain suffrage before black men. How Audre Lorde, years later, would still be fighting over how she has to overcome both her sex and her race for equal treatment. I'm thinking of how many women flock to Susan B. Anthony's grave with their "I Voted!" stickers and how many of them must be white and/or not care about the people excluded from the movement. White women putting themselves first and thinking they are the best really goes back that far, and of course even farther. It's great there was a movement, but would it really have been so terrible to demand the inclusion of the black/Indigenous communities in the amendment?