The Racial Divide in the Women’s Suffrage Movement | The Vote

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The Racial Divide in the Women’s Suffrage Movement | The Vote

Learn how race became a wedge issue during the Reconstruction Era, dividing formerly united abolitionists and suffragists, in these videos adapted from The Vote | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. When suffragists put aside their own agenda to fight for an end to slavery, they expected support from newly freed black men. Congress's decision to push for suffrage for black men only in the 15th Amendment set these two historic causes in opposition.

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