Quiet as it’s Kept…Liz Cheney backing Kamala Harris for president isn’t just smart—it’s a historic nod to the Black women founders of the women’s movement.

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Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) decision to back Vice President Kamala Harris for President is not only smart and necessary, it’s an alliance that gives women a second chance to fulfill what began almost 200 years ago when, quiet as it’s kept, Black women founded the women’s movement and White women joined them. While the first Women’s Rights Convention may have been held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, the true birthdate of the movement began much earlier and nearly 300 miles away — by Black women in Philadelphia in Sept 1831. Sarah Mapps Douglass, a 25-year-old teacher and artist, issued the call as she and her mother, Grace Bustill Douglass, welcomed family and friends to their home. That Saturday, they could not have known how profoundly they would redirect history on two fronts in one day. Craving a “mental feast,” this was their inaugural banquet. By day’s end, they’d founded the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia (FLA) — thought to be the first book club in the nation. By year’s end, they’d changed the world. Along with Mapps Douglass and her mother, the group included Charlotte Forten and her daughters Sarah, Margaretta, and Harriet. Who were these...

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