Black male politicians supported women’s suffrage more than white male politicians did

Evidence

If it had been left up to the first generation of Black male politicians, women may have received voting rights in the 1870s. All six Black Massachusetts legislators, and six of seven Black US representatives from South Carolina, for example, supported women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony may have privately realized that Black men were not “densely ignorant of every public question,” including her right to vote. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 661

Categorization

• QUESTION: This contradicts the common narrative that Black men abandoned women’s suffrage once they got the vote. Worth checking how much of the delay was white male resistance versus Black indifference.