The whole thing is very gender specific- voting rights for all men etc etc. I think this might be the influence of the time period.

thinking about the gender issue within washington/du bois a little too. hahah at the end du bois says something about voting and achieving

manhood. ..i think it's funny that they at the time never conceived gender problems. priorities i spose. haha

definitely not complaining though, just think it's funny.

Gender was a big issue at the time but it wasn't as successful as race. African American men were franchised with the 15th amendment in 1870

but it took women another 50 years before they got the vote with the 17th amendment in 1920.

The funny thing is that we often see equal rights more universally now - equal between races and sexes - but historically the camps weren't

always so close. African Americans sometimes felt women were trying to ride in on the coattails of their social battle; women sometimes

didn't want to be associated with African Americans. Other times the groups worked together more successfully. The ones that had it the

worst were the African American women. They were treated as the lowest group in this particular hiearchy of race and sex.