Role Play in Charlotte “Lottie” Rollins
Hi, my name is Charlotte Rollins. I live in Charleston, South California. My sisters and I attended school in the North. After the war ended, we together with my sister Katherine opened a school for the benefit of the freed people in Charleston. I felt it would be great to pass education benefits on to the Black men and women who were newly freed.
After managing to become South Carolina’s congressman clerk, I gained a lot of popularity. We also ran a salon known as “Republican Headquarters”. All these factors led to the rise of our political influence thus using it as an opportunity to support reconstruction. I believe reconstruction is the only thing that will result in equal rights, regardless of color and ethnicity.
Since then, I have been fighting for reconstruction that we all believe will rebuild the United States. My sisters and I are running a human rights organization known as the “Republican Party”. I hope to use our political influence to fight for demanding women’s suffrage. I believe that the reconstruction of my sisters and I have been pushing since the end of the war, more so on the issue of black women’s rights. Reconstruction will defeat women suffrage in South Carolina, and they will enjoy their freedom as any other person within the United States. Through all that I have managed to achieve including but not limited to, organizing the first-ever Women’s Rights Convention, I believe that women will not suffer again and will not pass through what they experienced five decades ago. Fighting for equality, I hope that reconstruction will maintain its slogan of making all people, regardless of color, feel equal as this was the main reason for its formation.