And though women like Milholland, Catt, and Paul did much for the cause of women’s suffrage, that advocacy didn’t extend to Black women, who were often intentionally excluded from the movement. One reason why so many people, particularly southern Democrats, opposed suffrage for women is because they knew it would give Black women the right to vote, and that, they just couldn’t abide. Giving them the right to vote would upset the entire power dynamic that the United States was founded upon, and the rock upon which it still rested: the supremacy of white men. Many white women went along with it:
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