Susan B. tells the complex story of an iron-willed suffragist who happened to love women during the Victorian era. Susan B. Anthony was a key player during Reconstruction, when the foundations of all of today’s debates -- over women’s rights, abortion rights, voter suppression, and racism -- were put in place. The story of Roe starts here.

When Susan B. learns that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are being crafted to give voting and other citizenship rights to Black men while specifically excluding women, she is forced to choose. Should she put her lifelong fight for woman suffrage on hold in order to support her friend Frederick Douglass and other Black men? Or should she join forces with an unabashed racist, because he is the only man willing to fund her cash-starved campaign?

Susan B. is a tale of desperate choices made by women with privilege but no rights, and the white men determined to hold onto their power at any cost. Some things never change.