{"id":287,"date":"2016-09-01T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/?p=287"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:44:58","slug":"the-black-women-who-paved-the-way-for-a-female-major-party-candidate-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiounity.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/01\/the-black-women-who-paved-the-way-for-a-female-major-party-candidate-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Women Who Paved the Way for a Female Major Party Candidate for President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ashley Taylor, Toledo, OH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amidst the hype of Hillary Clinton amassing enough delegates to become the first female presidential nominee of a major party, I came across a thought-provoking tweet, which got plenty of RT\u2019s, I think pistachioconsulting.com<\/a>, a left-leaning social media marketing company was involved in it. Here is the tweet:  \u201cIt\u2019s Black and Brown women who sweep the floors after white women break glass ceilings.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of one\u2019s political ideology, most saw\u00a0the nomination of a woman candidate for president as a major\u00a0blow\u00a0to the\u00a0glass ceiling keeping women from political power. Hillary Clinton\u2019s nomination was a landmark victory for women\u2019s rights. But, we must not\u00a0forget the women who first cracked this ceiling when it seemed to be made of cement. These are women we hardly ever\u00a0get to learn about, let alone praise for their contributions to women\u2019s equality. We don\u2019t hear enough about women like Shirley Chisholm<\/u><\/a>, the first African-American Congresswoman,\u00a0and\u00a0the<\/a> first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, 44 years before Hillary Clinton achieved this latter feat. Or what about\u00a0Carol Mosely Braun<\/u><\/a>, the first (and to date, the only) African American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sojourner\u2019s truth: Where it began, how much has changed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

American women of all races and ethnicities have been working toward the moment that a woman\u2019s name would appear at the top of the ticket in a presidential election year since (and even before) the Seneca Falls Convention<\/u><\/a>. At the Seneca Falls Convention, a black woman, abolitionist, former slave, and women\u2019s rights advocate named Sojourner Truth<\/u><\/a> masterfully asked: \u201cAin\u2019t I A Woman?\u201d Seneca Falls was the birthplace of America\u2019s women\u2019s rights movement. Even then, Sojourner Truth needed to call attention to the movement\u2019s erasure of slave women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We must now ask Sojourner Truth\u2019s same question and never forget all the women\u2013 black, white and brown\u2013who have led us to this moment in history and will lead us beyond. In acknowledging their womanhood and the equal rights women have fought to attain, we must also recognize the added layers of oppression faced by women with intersectional<\/a> experiences of oppression. Race, sexuality, and gender-based discrimination could not dim the contributions and successes made by women of yesterday to bring us to today, where triumphant strides have come, though the struggle is far from over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as women on both sides of the aisle have reasons to celebrate the fact of a woman candidate for president, we look to the future and to the past. We must not forget to glance back and remember the women, especially black women, whose shoulders Hillary stands on today, and that women in all years after will also bring to their advantage. Only then, when we equitably remember who fought and won the struggle for women\u2019s equal rights, can we reach and finally shatter<\/em> this glass ceiling and move towards breaking the next one together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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