Discovering New York Suffrage Stories
Hester Jeffrey
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Learn about Hester Jeffrey's role in bringing black women to the conversation on equality.
This segment examines the differences between white and black women during this time. While white women focused exclusively on suffrage, black women had the intersection of race and sex to juggle. In response, Jeffrey established women’s clubs in Rochester. Later she befriended Anthony, who believed that Southern states would not support their cause if black women were involved in an obvious way.
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Discovering New York Suffrage Stories
Hester Jeffrey
Clip | 5m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
This segment examines the differences between white and black women during this time. While white women focused exclusively on suffrage, black women had the intersection of race and sex to juggle. In response, Jeffrey established women’s clubs in Rochester. Later she befriended Anthony, who believed that Southern states would not support their cause if black women were involved in an obvious way.
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Discovering New York Suffrage Stories is a local public television program presented by BTPM PBS
Major support for Discovering New York Suffrage Stories was provided by The National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor and by the Susan Howarth Foundation and KeyBank in...