White suffragists prioritized their own status over black political rights in the vote conflict.

Evidence

Black women activists were not the only group of women to shift their attention away from women’s rights issues. Because much of the energy of female activists had focused on the vote, once it was obtained many women saw no further need for a women’s movement. Although white women in the Woman’s Party continued feminist struggle, black women were rarely active participants. Their energies were focused on resisting mounting racial oppression. While white women’s rights advocates struggled in 1933 to get the Senate to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, black women activists were fighting to prevent the lynching of black women and men by mobs of white racists, to improve the conditions of masses of poverty-stricken black people, and to provide educational opportunities. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 502 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White suffragists sacrificed racial solidarity to win the ballot; Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men; White suffragists opposed black male suffrage out of racial hierarchy concerns. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 369 (+2 more)

Related

• In the 1930s black and white women pursued divergent political priorities (similarity 0.93)
• White suffragists opposed black male suffrage out of racial hierarchy concerns. (similarity 0.90)
• White suffragists openly argued suffrage would secure white supremacy. (similarity 0.87)
• The women’s rights movement exposed white women’s refusal to surrender white supremacy. (similarity 0.84)
• White women’s rights appeals exploited racism against black men (similarity 0.83)
• The 1919 arrests united classes and introduced women to politics (similarity 0.82)
• Women’s failed bid to be included in the black suffrage amendment forged American feminisms (similarity 0.81)
• Black women faced a double bind between racist white feminists and patriarchal black leaders (similarity 0.81)
• Most black women chose the black patriarchy over the feminist movement. (similarity 0.81)
• Black women supported feminism more strongly than white women in 1972 (similarity 0.81)
• Black women faced pressure from both whites and blacks to separate racism from sexism (similarity 0.80)
• White abolitionists opposed slavery but never supported racial equality. (similarity 0.80)
• The militant National Woman’s Party promoted only white middle and upper class women (similarity 0.80)
• Black female activists abandoned women’s rights to fight racism instead (similarity 0.80)
• Racism was routine within the women’s rights movement against black reformers (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White suffragists sacrificed racial solidarity to win the ballot #corroborates (0.90)
• In the 1930s black and white women pursued divergent political priorities #expands (0.70) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 502
• Suffrage politics trapped black women between racist feminists and sexist black men #expands (0.60)