In 1884 Anthony bullied her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton into not mailing a letter to a newspaper publicly congratulating Douglass on his marriage to Helen Pitts, a white woman. Anthony told Stanton the marriage of a black man to a white woman “has no place on our platform.”
Anthony was afraid that any open support of black rights would weaken the women’s rights movement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/letters/suffragists-women-racism.html
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