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Which two details best shape the idea that contributions of Black women were ignored in the fight for women's rights?
excerpt from Between Two Worlds: Black Women and the Fight for Voting Rights
Source: The National Park Service
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Black women played an active role in the struggle for universal suffrage. They participated in political meetings and
organized political societies. African American women attended political conventions at their local churches where they planned strategies to gain the
right to vote. in the late 1800s, more Black women worked for churches, newspapers, secondary schools, and colleges, which gave them a larger
platform t o promote their ideas.
But in spite of their hard work, many people didn't listen to them. Black men and white women usually led civil rights organizations and set the agenda.
They often excluded Black women from their organizations and activities. For example, the National American Woman Suffrage Association prevented
Black women from attending their conventions. Black women often had to march separately from white women in suffrage parades. in addition, when
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote the History of Woman Suffrage i
n the 1880s, they featured white suffragists while largely ignoring
the contributions of African American suffragists. Though Black women are less well remembered, they played an important role in getting the Fifteenth
and Nineteenth Amendments passed.
Black women found themselves pulled i two directions. Black men wanted their support in fighting racial discrimination and prejudice, while white
women wanted them to help change the inferior status of women in American society. Both groups ignored the unique challenges that African American
women faced. Black reformers like Mary Church Terrell, Frances Ellen Watkns Harper, and Harriet Tubman understood that both their race and their sex
affected their rights and opportunities.
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