i was just thinking about that kind of suffrage organizing work back inthe towards the end of the nineteenth century. And in our seeing white series, we talked about how whiteness is this kind of active tool that powerful people can use to get poor folks to a line with them. So whiteness appears again as this oppressive, anti democratic weapon. i'm glad you all took a minute to reflect on the work of queen mother moore and ida b wells. It's such an important insight, isn't it? That a major impetus for the modern civil rights movement was black women,. Black women have had it up to here with being sexually abused and assaulted by white men.
People fighting for more democracy in the United States often have to struggle against sexism and racism. In fact, those two struggles are often inseparable—certainly from the perspective of black
women and some other women of color.
Reported and produced by host John Biewen, with Season 3 co-host Celeste Headlee and Season 4 collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Glenda Gilmore, Ashley Farmer, Sandra Arrington, and
Danielle McGuire.
Music by Alex Weston, Evgueni and Sacha Galperine, and Eric Neveux. Music consulting and production help from Joe Augustine of Narrative Music.