Leftist Reading: Women, Race & Class Part 6

Leftist Reading

Episode 42:

This week we’re continuing our reading of Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
The full book is available online here:
https://archive.org/details/WomenRaceClassAngelaDavis

[Part 1 - 2]
1. THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY: STANDARDS FOR A NEW WOMANHOOD

[Part 3]
2. THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND THE BIRTH OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS

[Part 4 - 5]
3. CLASS AND RACE IN THE EARLY WOMEN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGN (first half)

[Part 6 - This Week]
4. RACISM IN THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
Reading - 00:38
Discussion - 33:00

[Part 7]
5. THE MEANING OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDING TO BLACK WOMEN

[Part 8]
6. EDUCATION AND LIBERATION: BLACK WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVE

[Part 9]
7. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY: THE RISING INFLUENCE OF RACISM

[Part 10]
8. BLACK WOMEN AND THE CLUB MOVEMENT

[Part 11]
9. WORKING WOMEN, BLACK WOMEN AND THE HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT

[Part 12 - 13]
10. COMMUNIST WOMEN

[Part 14 - 15]
11. RAPE, RACISM AND THE MYTH OF THE BLACK RAPIST

[Part 16 - 17]
12. RACISM, BIRTH CONTROL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

[Part 18-19]
13. THE APPROACHING OBSOLESCENCE OF HOUSEWORK: A WORKING-CLASS PERSPECTIVE

Footnotes:

1) – 02:30
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, editors, History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2 (1861–1876) (Rochester, N. Y.: Charles Mann, 1887), pp. 94–95 (note).

2) – 04:02
Ibid., p. 172.

3) – 05:36
Ibid, p. 159.

4) – 06:34
Ibid., p. 188.

5) – 07:34
Ibid., p. 216.

6) – 08:05
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 240.

7) – 08:29
Ibid., pp. 240–241.

8) – 08:45
Ibid., p. 241.

9) – 11:00
Gurko, op. cit., p. 213.

10) – 11:08
Ibid.

11) – 11:59
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214.

12) – 13:50
Flexner, op. cit., p. 144.

13) – 15:20
Allen, op. cit., p. 143.

14) – 16:10
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 167. This passage comes from a speech entitled “The Need for Continuing Anti-Slavery Work” delivered by Douglass at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, May 9, 1865. Originally published in the Liberator, May 26, 1865.

15) – 17:25
Ibid., p. 17.

16) – 18:04
Ibid., p. 41.

17) – 18:52
Aptheker, A Documentary History, Vol. 2, pp. 553–554. “Memphis Riots and Massacres.” Report No. 101, House of Representatives, 39th Cong., 1st Sess. (Serial #1274), pp. 160–161, 222–223.

18) – 19:25
Foster, op. cit., p. 261.

19) – 20:35
W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America (Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books,1964), p. 670.

20) – 20:48
Ibid., p. 671.

21) – 21:09
Ibid., p. 672.

22) – 22:24
According to Philip Foner, “Douglass objected to Susan Anthony’s praise of James Brooks’ championship of woman suffrage in Congress, pointing out that it was simply ‘the trick of the enemy to assail and endanger the right of black men.’ Brooks, former editor of the New York Express, a viciously anti-Negro, pro-slavery paper, was playing up to the leaders of the women’s movement in order to secure their support in opposing Negro suffrage. Douglass warned that if the women did not see through these devices of the former slave owners and their northern allies, ‘there would be trouble in our family.’ ” (Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, pp. 41–42)

23) – 23:20
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 245.

24) – 23:50
Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.

25) – 23:59
Gurko, op. cit., p. 223.

26) – 24:16
Ibid., pp. 223–224.

27) – 24:51
Ibid., p. 221. Also Stanton, Eighty Years and More, p. 256.

28) – 26:06
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 382.

29) – 26:50
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 44.

30) – 26:58
Ibid.

31) – 27:08
Ibid.

32) – 27:42
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 222. See also Lerner, Black Women in White America, p. 569.

33) – 28:03
Foner, The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 4, p. 212 (letter to Josephine Sophie White Griffin, Rochester, September 27, 1968).

34) – 28:12
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 928. Sojourner Truth was criticizing Henry Ward Beecher’s approach to the suffrage question. See Allen’s analysis, op. cit., p. 148.35) – 28:42

35) - 28:42
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 391. Frances E. W. Harper warned the gathering of the dangers of racism by describing a situation in Boston where sixty white women walked off the job to protest the hiring of one Black woman. (p. 392)

36) – 29:58
Allen, op. cit., p. 145.

37) – 30:36
Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. 2, p. 214. See also Allen, op. cit., p. 146.