Neily Raymond

The Black suffragists who appear in “Suffs” serve as plot devices more often than not. When Paul wants to concede to Southerners’ demands to relegate Black women to the back of the protest march, Ida B. Wells (Danyel Fulton) shows up suddenly and randomly. “I hear you quote Frederick Douglass on your soapbox,” she sings. “But you want me to wait my turn?”