The idea for producing “The Black Suffragist” came to me about two years ago, shortly after I caught a screening of the movie “Suffragette”, which starred Meryl Streep. It was a touching, intense and thought-provoking drama. I was also impressed because the subject of women's rights is rarely addressed in movies.
It then occurred to me that I did not know what role Black women had within the movement if any. So I began my own research. As it turned out, there were a number of prominent Black activists. I was moved to tears while reading some of their stories. How was it that I did not know many of them?
Yes, I knew of Sojourner Truth. But I’d never heard of Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell or Nannie Helen Burroughs. As a woman of African
It then occurred to me that I did not know what role Black women had within the movement if any. So I began my own research. As it turned out, there were a number of prominent Black activists. I was moved to tears while reading some of their stories. How was it that I did not know many of them?
Yes, I knew of Sojourner Truth. But I’d never heard of Anna J. Cooper, Mary Church Terrell or Nannie Helen Burroughs. As a woman of African