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The 19th Amendment Did Not Liberate Black women 

by Allison Gaines

“The heroes a society accepts say a lot about the values they share. The original American heroes, the Founding fathers, were white men who never regarded Black people or women equally. Despite their violent, sexist, and racist ideology, Americans continue to put these men on pedestals, capitulating to their determination to commit genocide against Indigenous people and exalting them despite their embrace of slavery. 

These men are not heroes to Black people, and they should not be heroes to many Americans. Turning a blind eye to tyranny is not chivalrous; it’s obscene.

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37y after Soujourner Truth died, the 19th Amendment passed but left Black women behind.

They simply refused to fight for Black women’s rights as if they were unqualified to be women…." 

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