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![]() Her struggle is made all the more difficult by her own campaign for Student Council President. struggles with how to make sense of this paradox. ![]() In later years, she refused to vocally support Black suffragists out of fear she might upset white ones. ![]() She had decided that she would rather have no Black people vote at all than to have Black men but no women of any race vote. The groundbreaking champion of women’s rights-an advocate of abolition and friend of Black leaders including Frederick Douglass–campaigned with an avowed racist against the amendment giving Black men the vote. And like me, she learns that her hero was…complicated. This struggle is at the heart of my new middle-grade novel Susie B. ![]() It is how we move from being concrete thinkers to abstract thinkers, from being children to adults. To accept that people can be both good and bad, heroic and villainous, all at the same time. One of the great struggles of adolescence-of life, really-is to learn to hold paradoxical ideas in our heads. ![]()
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