They marched in skirts soaked with sweat and resolve. They spoke with voices hoarse from fighting two battles at once—race and gender. They bled, literally and metaphorically, for a freedom that wore white but never looked their way. And when that victory parade finally rolled through, Black women, the backbone of the suffrage movement… were told to step aside. Erased from the headlines. Cropped out of the photos. Strategically silenced in the name of “political progress.” This is the untold tru