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Frederick Douglass was one of the few men present at the pioneer woman’s rights convention held at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848. His support of women’s rights never wavered although in 1869 he publicly disagreed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony who called for women’s suffrage simultaneously with voting rights for black men, arguing that prejudice and violence against black men made their need for the franchise more pressing.
so, yes, men did contribute.
Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer for the NAACP who argued Brown v. Board of Education in the 1950s.
Marshall would go on to become a Supreme Court justice himself.
Colonization efforts began in the 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in North America. The first permanent British colony was established in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. ... In 1620, a group of Puritans established a second permanent colony on the coast of Massachusetts.