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Important People, Events and Organization. Womenâs Suffrageâ First-wave feminists were fighting for womenâs right to vote. The womenâs suffrage movement was in alignment with the Black Suffrage and the Abolitionist movement, due to the similiar goals of equality. Elizabeth Cady Stanton â Avid suffragist and abolitionist.
The reason racism is a feminist issue is easily explained by the inherent definition of feminism. Feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women --as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women. Anything less than this is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement..