The New York Times Weighs In On What Historians Already Know

A friend sent me a story from the New York Times about the first raging debate about the fitness of African-American men versus white women to participate in the political process. While they were allies in the anti-slavery movement, white women were angered by the decision to give black men the vote before white women. A great book about the struggle between African-American men and white women's political rights is Louise M. Newman, White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1999)