sheila’s Reviews > Women, Race & Class > Status Update

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 allowed Americans to walk freely in public regardless of their race or previous condition of servitude. In 1883, the Supreme Court claimed the act unconstitutional and reversed it.

I had always read about the dangers of "getting too comfortable" but I've never seen it so obviously presented. I remember how I felt when Roe v Wade was overturned, I can't imagine the hopelessness in 1883.

“Because the Grimke sisters had such a profound consciousness of the inseparability of the fight for Black Liberation and the fight for Women’s Liberation, they were never caught in the ideological snare of insisting that one struggle was absolutely more important than the other.”

I forgot nonfiction can make me just as emotional and this is just a single quote from chapter two :,)