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What we think of as the “American Women’s Suffrage Movement” was seriously racist, that’s an historical fact . I see a lot of WOC (especially on Twitter) who agree with Mikki Kendall here:

But let’s be clear, don’t you ever in your life give credit for Black women voting to the white women who wanted them to stay in the back.

They don’t want to go to the gravesite of a white Suffragette today, and I don’t blame them. Here, instead, is a preliminary list of gravesites of heroines of African-American women’s suffrage that you may want to visit today or tomorrow. The links are to Find-a-Grave or Facebook, where you can get detailed directions to the gravesites, or leave an online message if you can’t visit.

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Oak Hill Cemetery, Battle Creek MI

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1821-1911): Eden Cemetery, Collingdale PA

Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893): buried in mass grave when Columbian Harmony Cemetery was closed and markers thrown out.

Anna Julia Cooper (1857-1964): City Cemetery, Raleigh NC

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931): Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago IL

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954): Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland MD

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961): Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland MD

Daisy Lampkin (1883-1965): Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh PA

Reply or leave an Ask with names to add to this list?

Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005): Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo NY

Elizabeth Piper Ensley (1848-1919): Riverside Cemetery, Denver CO

Ella Baker (1903-1986): Flushing Cemetery, Queens, New York City