We've all heard about the work women did to secure the right to vote. We've seen photographs of white women in long dresses, marching with signs in the streets, lobbying for their right to to be treated as the white man's equal.
We haven't heard the voices that were silenced by the dominant narrative: the countless women of color that were turned away from the white woman's suffrage campaign, silenced at the podium when attempting to speak on their experience as women of color in America, and erased from the pages of history as only a select few were canonized as pioneers for women.
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We are here to provide you with a selection of these important voices. We imagine if we could hear them speak now, their powerful, clear words would ring loud and strong over the clutter of the dominant historical thread in feminism, to tell us about their hard and significant work. They would speak out not only for themselves, but for so many other silenced women of color that we will never know about because they were erased from history too soon.
Feel free to click through our pages and read our posts. You will leave with a more colorful understanding of feminist history, as you learn about The Essential Works Forgotten From Essential Feminism.
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