A Path to Anti-Racism

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You can watch this past forum online thanks to the Seattle Channel at either their site or on YouTube.
Click here to see the program handed out at the forum.

For further reading on the past and present opportunities for white women to do better in supporting the voting rights of all women:

• ACLU: Celebrate Women’s Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism
• NY Times: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women
• National Women’s History Museum: Votes for Women means Votes for Black Women
• Slate: How Racism Nearly Derailed Women’s Right to Vote
• NPR / The Root: How Racism Tainted Women's Suffrage
• Public Seminar: Heroes but Not Saints
• Teen Vogue: Women's Suffrage Leaders Left Out Black Women
• Oxford Research Encyclopedia: The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States
• Book: One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
• Harper’s Bazaar “The Moments that Mattered: We need white women to call to their sisters and be the influence they need.”
• Prezi: Racism and Classism in the early Women’s Rights Campaign and Suffrage Movement
• A Dream Undone [History of Voting Rights Act in the U.S. This is a LONG READ] (July 2015), part of the New York Times Magazine’s series, Disenfranchised. Other articles in this series are short reads.
• Think Progress: Washington Democrats’ ambitious new voting rights agenda
• The Nation: How Oregon Increased Voter Turnout More Than Any Other State
• Densho: Japanese Americans Incarcerated During WWII Could Still Vote, Kind Of
• NY Times Obituary: Overlooked: Ida B. Wells
• The University Star: Happy Birthday, Ida B Wells: How the erasure of black women activists will doom us all
• History.com: Native Americans Couldn’t Vote in Every State Until 1962
• Baltimore Sun: The naked truth about Sojourner Truth