In 1872, a black woman named Susan Anthony was arrested for trying to vote in the US presidential election, and in 2020 the American people voted for Kamala Harris, a half-black woman, to become the first woman to hold the office of Vice President.

How did you get to the White House in a country that enslaved blacks and denied women the right to vote until 1920?

"The black woman is required by the white man to explain the injustice he inflicts on her. Blacks and third-world residents must teach whites about humanity," according to the description of Dr. Khalila Sabra, Executive Director of the Justice Center for Immigrants of the Muslim American Community (MAS), who said, "To preserve their positions, tyrants resort to To evade responsibility for their actions, and therefore we must continue to speak until he listens to us. "

Sabra was born to a black mother and a white father, and converted to Islam in her youth. About this she says, "I have always felt pressure to clarify my identity as a result of a society that has difficulty combining them, despite my carrying the two races in my heart, I will continue to defend the identity of my mother and everyone who aspires to a world in which we can all thrive."

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Sojourne Truth (1797-1883)

The first woman to challenge a white man in court when he sold her five-year-old son and took him back, and in 1826 she escaped with her youngest daughter from slavery and joined the Abolitionists' liberation movement, and gave a speech in 1851 at a women's rights conference in Ohio, entitled "Are you not?" a woman?"

She demands equality with men, and said that she works and endures like them and does not provide her with assistance. Why did they demand the right of the black man to vote and not her right?

Harriet Tubman (circa 1861-1913)

Tubman freed hundreds of enslaved people through the tunnels, and was an advocate of the right of black women to vote as well as inspired modernists.

Choral Franklin Cook (1861-1942)

Cook created the National Foundation of Women of Color and published Votes for Mothers in NAACP to discuss the challenges facing mothers and their right to vote.

Charlotte Rollin (1849 - unknown)

After the American Civil War (1861-1865), the "women's suffrage" movement split into two organizations: the National Foundation for Women's Suffrage and the American Women's Suffrage Foundation, to which Rollin joined.

In 1870, she was elected secretary of the South Carolina Women's Rights Foundation, and her sisters helped her.

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Wales (1826-1931)

Members of Welles' first black women's voting club toured the neighborhoods to educate people about their rights, contributing to Candidate de Priest's victory as the first black man to win local elections in 1914.

Welles traveled with a group of black women to Washington DC to participate in the suffrage parade, but they refused to participate, so they wrote to the organizing committee that allowed them on the condition that they walk in the back to preserve the feeling of white women, and indeed they did, but Wells entered the front rows in the middle of her African hair proud Without individual to gain admission.

Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

In 1955 Parks refused to leave her seat on the public bus to a white man, who was arrested for breaking the law at the time.

This refusal sparked a city bus boycott and sparked a civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King.

Parks was sitting in the rear seats of color, and when the white seats were finished, the driver asked the first row of black passengers to move.

3 responded and Parks refused and was arrested.

“People say I didn't leave my place because I was tired. I was not physically tired but tired of giving up,” Parks said in her diary.

Shirley Sheeslem

She was born in 1944 and was the first black woman to run for Congress, then she became the first woman to run for the US presidency in 1972.

Angela Davis

Davis continues to teach generations about the rights of blacks, refugees, Muslims and Palestinians through her teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The human rights activist was born in 1944 and is known for her relationship with the Black Panther Party, which was established in 1966 to defend black rights.

In 1977 she participated in the establishment of the "Critical Resistance" organization to dismantle the prison system that allows for profiting from the increase in the number of prisoners, especially blacks.

Dr. Sabra concluded her speech to Al-Jazeera Net by saying, "Silence against injustice has not and will not protect anyone, so before you are silent, remember that what you are silent about today will be lived by your children tomorrow. Is this what you want for them?"