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'Ellen Watkins Harper boldly challenged white women who advocated for women’s rights but excluded those of Black women. Her remarks at the convention captured the essence of her political vision: “I do not believe that giving the woman the ballot is immediately going to cure all the ills of life. . . . You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs.”'

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'According to [Lucy (Lucie) Stanton Day] Sessions, “Those who rob their fellow-men of home, of liberty, of education, of life are really at war against them as though they cleft them down upon the bloody field.”'

"In August 1850, [Lucy (Lucie) Stanton Day] Sessions was elected president of the [Litterae Laborum Solomen (LLS)]—the first African American woman to serve in this capacity. That year, she also completed a two-year program in the Ladies’ Literary Course at Oberlin, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from college in the United States."