While women like Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony were credited with sparking the U.S. suffrage movement at Seneca Falls, that is indeed a myth. For one thing, Anthony wasn’t even present at the convention. And furthermore, she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another white woman heralded for her suffrage efforts, actively honed our collective history to make themselves seem like the leaders of the movement with speeches like the “History of Women’s Suffrage.” Today we would call that speech what it really was: a power play with talking points for frontline protesters.

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No More Whitewashing the Women’s Suffrage Movement

https://qcnerve.com/no-more-whitewashing-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

The Nineteenth Amendment

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-7/apush-the-progressives-lesson/a/the-nineteenth-amendment?utm_account=Grant&utm_campaignname=DSA_www_US_zipcodes&gclid=CjwKCAjwi9-HBhACEiwAPzUhHFGNEbN-7A405K5SSZhWZN-Q6FKjsi63t731iUKJJHGqKMKn2l4NPhoCNiAQAvD_BwE

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