Henry Wallace Women's Rights

Despite this, corrupted racial legislators rose to power in the South and passed laws to segregate and separate blacks and whites. Beginning in 1896 with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, these laws known as Jim Crow Laws restricted the rights of blacks and gained popularity among the Southern states (National Historic

Anthony other women’s rights pioneers, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton which caused the Congress to exceed and amendment issued by the Constitution to liberate and enfranchise women(Schneider 6). Many women groups were not being listened too which made them push even harder to get the right to vote(Frost-Knappman 17). Because of this great influence the women presented at that time, it became a mass movement(Schneider 7). Two organizations were critical help for the women, with the NAWSA, National American Woman Suffrage Association which managed campaigns to release women. Also this organization worked diligently with President Wilson to transcend a Constitutional Amendment of woman suffrage.

The Voting Rights Act phorbid both literacy tests and poll taxes, and made sure the Justice Department would take over voting in any cities that had trouble adapting to the new law (Trodd). The Voting Rights Act not only gave African Americans the new freedom of voting, it also help them get more benifits beyond polotics. Similar to what happened when women gained the right to vote, now that African Americans could vote, polticians started tending to African Americans every need to get their vote and win the election. African Americans also stated being elected into office, who would also help African Americans in their fight to

Elizabeth Cady Stanton also played an important role in women’s rights. Elizabeth was born November 12th, 1815. Her father was a judge and lawyer, and after she returned from the Troy Female Seminary in New York in 1833, she spent time in his office and watched how he dealt with cases. Seeing women suffrage and discrimination, she wanted to change laws. She became involved with the antislavery movement.

And if you fight here, you will at least know what you're fighting for." He’s saying that the whites just send you over and say fight and you have no idea why you are just doing as you are told. But if you fight right here and right now then you will know why you are fighting and the outcome will be greater. Malcolm also mentions that “22 million Black people are victims of Americanism” and he considers himself one. These victims are those who are a part of the dishonest democracy that we have in the United States.

Annotated Bibliography Alexander, M. (2010). The new Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. New York: The New Press. Alexander opens up on the history of the criminal justice system, disciplinary crime policy and race in the U.S. detailing the ways in which crime policy and mass incarceration have worked together to continue the reduction and defeat of black Americans. Her central thesis is that mass incarceration is “The New Jim Crow,” or the new system of control used by the government to uphold racial class in the U.S.

Similar to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which ignited the environmental movement, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique sparked the second wave of feminism. American society limited women’s roles to housewife and feminine jobs such as teachers and secretaries. Friedan and her supporters focused on job equality and equal pay, but soon the movement progressed and split into two factions, women’s rights and women’s liberation. The liberation movement, composed mostly of young, radical women, advocated for much more than equal job opportunities and education which the women’s rights movement demanded. While the two groups eventually merged and provided some success, gender equality and women’s rights remain a controversial issue in American society.

First, was the role slavery played in drafting the document; second, the Declaration contains an apparent promise of liberty and equality that was unfulfilled for African-Americans before the Civil War and only partially fulfilled after. In his original draft of the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson condemned King George II of England for supporting the slave trade and imposing it on Virginians. This provision has led to the myth that he attempted to attack slavery in the Declaration. Rather, Jefferson’s attack focused on the slave trade. In his draft, he complained that the King had “waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty” by continuing the African slave trade.

Life was unfair for African Americans, especially those who were free. Mary Stewart was killed, by a man who was later appointed to the Grand Jury (Blair 1764). For this reason is one of many why Lincoln wanted Congress to help end slavery once and for all (Brands 3). Lincoln struggled with getting slavery abolished and he grew tired and he began to show his age from it all. He even proved his determination of abolishing slavery when he would only consider peace with the southern states if slavery would be abolished (Blair 1758).

The media used propaganda for many reason, but the media used propaganda directed towards women a lot in World War II. The media did this to raise moral, to get women to volunteer, and to start getting jobs. An article discussed one of the most famous uses of propaganda from World War II which was Rosie the Riveter. This article talked about how Rosie was a symbol for American women to start working and to help the war effort on the home front. Rosie was a symbol to women that they could achieve this task and to show everyone how tough women are (Rupp, 2004, p. 53).

Women at home and serving America This paper seeks to address where women contributed the most during WW2. Did women have a greater contribution to the war efforts through their work in factories, voluntary work or organization, or their service in the military/nursing? American women played an important role during the World War II, both at home and in uniforms. Not only did these women give their sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers to the war efforts, they gave their time, energy, and some had even given their lives. Women’s involvement in the military was a massive contribution during the war, because it was the first time that women were allowed to join the military forces in roles besides nursing.

Particularly in the South, they continued to seek opportunities to legal slavery. As a result, Southerners pass a state law, Black Codes, during reconstruction. This law restricted the civil rights and public activities of legally freed African Americans. Owning weapons, freedom of movement, and land ownerships were against Black Codes. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), the court case that upheld authority of the state law claiming, “separate-but-equal facilities for whites and blacks” , led up to another significant factor, segregation, which arose to be controversy in mid-1900s.

For instance, Felix Frankfurter a Supreme Court Justice was a conservative whose language was difficult to comprehend. In the Brown II decision, he wrote that desegregation should be done with “due deliberate speed” (Hoffer 2017). What does that even mean? Given the U.S. Supreme Court problem with overthrowing Jim Crow, it did manage to resolve those difficulties. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund played a huge role in getting the U.S. Supreme Court to overthrow various aspects of Jim Crow.

Voting is such a huge thing because you want to be able to have a say in who you think should run things based on if they win or not. Especially if that person has the power to change what happens around you. The U.S. Government claimed they listen to what many African Americans and minorities had to say about what was happening in America because it was pretty clear that America had a problem. A guy named Robert Williams mentions in his 1965 speech by calling America “Racist America”. He states that so many African American are terrorized, murdered, maimed, bombed, lynched, raped, starved, sterilized by the states and imprisoned.

This plan was also accepted by South Carolina and Louisiana. One step the white south deemed important was to control the black vote. Violence, literary tests, property tests, primary elections, purges, former prisoners, and poll taxes were widely used to stop their vote. By legitimate pressures on black sharecroppers they were able to partially accomplish this goal. Their retaliations on the black populace were tremendous.