Soul Sisters
Oil on Canvas
Black and white women of first-wave feminism fought for the same freedoms but in ethnic isolation at the turn of the century. As the companion piece to "Women and Weeds," these little girls represent the solidarity of the black suffragettes who, in many parts of the US, won their right to vote several decades after their white counterparts.
Black and white women of first-wave feminism fought for the same freedoms but in ethnic isolation at the turn of the century. As the companion piece to "Women and Weeds," these little girls represent the solidarity of the black suffragettes who, in many parts of the US, won their right to vote several decades after their white counterparts.