White women pioneered 🌟 WHITE 🌟 feminism [revised]

Photo taken on Susan B. Anthony’s [center front] front porch in Adams, MA, 1896, with several other well-known [white] women’s suffrage movement leaders.

It is often asserted, as does the writer above [responding to Marley K’s The Hypocrisy and Betrayal of White Feminism] that white female suffragists were heroines not only for other white women, but for black women as well. The “women’s suffrage” movement was about suffrage for all women, not merely for the white women who were the public face of the movement in white media, and later in high school…

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Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.

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Georgia NeSmith

Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.