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The Washinton Post: A Vote of Allegiance?

Mar 24, 2008
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A Vote of Allegiance?
In the Obama-Clinton Battle, Race & Gender Pose Two Great Divides for Black Women

By DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 24, 2008; C01

Woman has an ocean of wrongs too deep for any plummet, and the Negro, too, has an ocean of wrongs that cannot be fathomed. There are two great oceans; in the one is the black man, and in the other is the woman. . . . I will be thankful in my soul if any body can get out of the terrible pit."

-- Lucy Stone, 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist, after women were excluded from the 15th Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote.

Article here: A Vote of Allegiance?