She fought so hard for so long and yet she felt so small.

Her life was falling apart.

Her health was failing her and she was running out of time.

Was she lived to see the impact of her work?

This is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in school.

Adela Hunt Logan, a fair skinned black woman, wanted a better future for her daughters.

Weary of white supremacy she came up with a plan.

For her, there was one short way to gain liberation for our people.

What was it?

The power of the ballot.

Her reasoning was simple.

If white women with their privilege needed voting rights for their voices to be heard,

then black people would be lost without it.

So how did she implement her plan?

She passed as white and infiltrated meetings with white suffragettes.

She took the information she learned and used it to help organize our people to vote.

She wrote articles, spoke out publicly, and held white activists accountable for including

black voices.

Despite all of this, Logan felt completely helpless.

But why?

She had worked so hard, but progress was so slow.

After battling kidney disease, electro shock therapy, severe depression, and a series

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