The Women's Movement: The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil War African American men and women roles in the civil war Name Affiliation Date Introduction In 1861, most African American men welcomed the beginning of the civil war when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina after the inauguration of the U.S president Abraham Lincoln. Most of the African American men served as guards for railways and bridges, scouts and spies in addition to their participation in the war fighting troops (Smith, 2002). Because of the suffering at home, thousands of the enslaved African American women began the transition to freedom and began new lives regardless of the horrors of the civil war (Blanton and Wike, 2002).

In history, every social movement had its prominent leader. The African American civil rights movement had Martin Luther King Jr., and the women 's suffrage movement had Susan B. Anthony. As for the LGBTQIA community, the obvious leader would be the man who spearheaded the gay rights movement other than the Stonewall Riot. Milk reached the greatest milestone for the movement by becoming the first openly gay man to hold public office. Elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, Dan White assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone not even a year after Milk won the election.

1. Describe American life during the 1950s. How do these events affect America today and how are they different from today’s world? 2. What is the Feminist Movement?

A catalyst in the Civil Rights Movement. Alongside of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks led the black community closer to Justice. Parks refused to sacrifice her seat to a white man in 1955, on a Montgomery city bus. This was not the first time Rosa battled with the same bus driver about the placement of her seat. When approaching the bus she proceeded to paid her fare and find her seat on the bus.

December 1,1955 was the day an unknown department store workers arrest started a movement that ended legal segregation in America. Even though she worked in a department store, Rosa Parks was best known for her work as a civil rights activist. Not only did she rebel against the laws of segregation, she also created a movement that abolished racism across the country. “Most people know Ms. Parks for being a woman whose feet were sore, who simply decided one day to sit in a seat she was not entitled to and defy Jim Crow segregation in Montgomery, Alabama. But her life was so much richer and more important than that.

During times of difficulty, it’s hard to see the positive outcome that can happen in the situation. Sometimes we jump to the conclusion that nothing positive can help in the situation we face, and we tend to give up. However I believe that if we use the examples of Rosa Parks and the Women suffrage, that it’s possible to turn something negative into something positive. Rosa Parks, an American civil rights activist during the civil rights movement. Her story began in a public bus.

Women’s Rights were the great unfinished business of the 20th century. This movement saw two waves in the 1900s, the second wave coming in the 1960s. Women’s Rights grew as a singular grassroots movement, after having been systematically separated from the general Civil Rights efforts. Legislation played a defining role in shaping not only advances in Women’s Rights n the 1960s but in shaping what is known now as modern America. The world of the American woman at this time was incredibly limited due to subsequent societal standards seen following World War II.

The woman's rights movement was enacted to secure the legal, economical, and social equality of women. It first began in 1848 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She presented her famous keynote at the Seneca Falls Convention, worked with Susan B. Anthony, and had many important events. The women's rights movement was evoked by many women, but it began with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 at a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls. Lucretia Mott accompanied Stanton to New York.

One of the main goals of Reconstruction was to require that the South give African-Americans equal rights. With slavery abolished, the Federal Government decided that it was now time to give African-Americans the rights given to the rest of American citizens. This was in the mid 1800s. Needless to say, these plans were not put in place, or at least not properly enforced, for many more years. It took a well-organized uprising by African-Americans about 100 years later to finally make some progress.

Constitutions that were man-made created societies based on hierarchy. That meaning, blacks were separated from white and rich separated from poor. How could America call itself "land of the free", when white men had more rights than others and had more freedom? Only white men could economically and socially move upward, while woman, African Americans, people with disabilities, and other races could not. This was an immobile society.

All actions are important, however, some are more meaningful than others. Most, if not all, actions create conflict, which may either be positive or negative depending on many factors. One of the most influential women in American history, Rosa Parks, comes about to be the most notorious for not letting another white passenger could take her seat while she stood in the back of the public bus. Her operation sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted from December 5, 1955 until December 20, 1956. Conversely, there were also other African Americans who resisted others who attempted to take their seats before Rosa Parks, showing Parks was indeed not the first to do so.

Vasquez 1 The Women’s Movement "I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back" (Yousafzai, 1). It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change because a woman’s silence will not protect her. Throughout society today, the idea of feminism stirs up many different types of emotions and views of exactly what feminism is. A lot of people think that women's rights have already been accomplished.

Tying into the African American Civil Rights Movement, many other previously disadvantaged demographics such as women began to push for social equality as well, leading to the rise of right liberalism within American society. For example, tired of being treated as “little more than pretty helpers who typed memos and fetched coffee,” women such as Kate Millett began to raise awareness about “sexual politics” (Henretta, 925). These efforts eventually culminated in the passing of Title IX in 1972, which changed the identity of American higher education; prior to Title IX, women’s opportunities in higher education were very limited, but now, “formerly all-male bastions such as Yale, Princeton, and the U.S. military academies admitted women undergraduates