problematicfeminist:

florianesque:

problematicfeminist:

146 years ago today Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote. She died before she was able to cast her ballot legally.

Don’t disrespect her memory on November 8th.

146 years ago susan b anthony wouldn’t let ida b wells and other black sufagettes march with her unless she went at the back because she valued racist southern women’s opinions over genuinely amazing suffragettes who risked their lives when they could be arrested WITH NO CAUSE. back then a black woman could be arrested for sex work by talking to a man who was not related to her, black suffragettes who looked at a man the wrong way would be arrested.

disrespect the memory of susan b anthony, she fucking sucks.

Susan B. Anthony did not march or organize any suffrage parades. By the time suffrage parades became a thing she was dead. She died in 1906, the first march for women’s suffrage was in 1913. You’re thinking of Alice Paul, who did indeed ask black suffragettes not to march with her. Which was racist and wrong, obviously.  

Anthoney was a slavery abolitionist and fought for the right to vote partially because she believed women voting would help end slavery. She was good friends with Fredrick Douglas. She was one of the first people to advocate not just for abolition, but integration, which was widely radical at the time. 

So again, you’re thinking of Alice Paul not Susan B. Anthony.