Your testimony did state that Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt are the pioneers of the women's suffrage movement, but didn't include women like Ida B. Wells, Dr. Mabel Lee, or Sarah Garnet.
Sydney Kamlager-Dove: “Your testimony did state that Lucretia Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt are the pioneers…”
On the recordJuly 12, 2023
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Critiques the omission of key figures in the women's suffrage movement.
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