Women Civil Rights 1865-1992 Key : Black = random facts, red = presidents, orange = congress, yellow = Supreme Court, lime = individuals, green = groups, blue = war, indigo = economy, purple = riots/protests/strikes. 1865-1914 1900 4 million children worked in industry or coalmines 1907 – 30 states had abolished child labour Civil War – unmarried women worked as nurses, some went to HE but men opposed it 1870 – 13% of unmarried women worked domestically or in factories. 1900 this trebled – they made up 17% of the workforce. Married women remained at home 1890s – women who graduated could get office jobs due to invention of typewriter and telephone, could earn up to $7 a week 1900 – 949,000 women worked as teachers, secretaries, librarians
She was a philanthropist and political activist. Madam Walker devoted most of her later years to social and political issues. Walker was involved with and made contributions to the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Conference on Lynching, the Indianapolis YMCA, and the National Negro Business League. Walker also sponsored scholarships for women attending the Tuskegee Institute (Felder 307). During World War I, Madam Walker recruited many black soldiers to the military.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham .Elizabeth Jennings Graham (1830–1901) was a black woman who lived in New York City. She figured in an important early civil rights case, when she insisted on her right to ride on a streetcar in 1854. Early life Graham was the daughter of Thomas Jennings, a successful tailor, and an important man in New York's black community. By 1854, she had become a schoolteacher and church organist. She taught at the city's African Free Schools, and later in the public schools.
Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March Question: In his speech, what did Martin Luther King attribute the root of racism too? Preliminary answer: On March 25, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. led thousands of men and women on a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery Albama. The march, which represented Dr. King’s ideology of nonviolence, was the culmination of a three-month campaign to eliminate African American disenfranchisement in Alabama.King gave his defiant speech while standing on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, a city known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy." This was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement. The Selma campaign would spark the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.Our whole campaign in Alabama has been centered around the right to vote.
NOW was not quite two years old in March 1968, but the organization was making its women's voices heard across the U.S. The article offered explanation and analysis from Betty Friedan, then president of NOW. Martha Weinman Lear reported such NOW activities as: • Picketing newspapers (including The New York Times) in protest of sex-segregated help wanted ads • Arguing on behalf of airline stewardesses at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • Pushing for the repeal of all state abortion laws • Lobbying for the Equal Rights Amendment (also known as ERA) in Congress What Women Want "The Second Feminist Wave" also examined the often ridiculed history of feminism and the fact that some women distanced themselves from the movement. Anti-feminist voices said U.S. women were comfortable in their "role" and were lucky to be the most privileged women on earth. "In the anti-feminist view," Martha Weinman Lear wrote, "the status quo is plenty good enough.
At the time of Parks’ arrest, she was 42-years-old, and well known and well liked throughout the black community. She had been married for 23 years and has established herself with the civil rights community working with the NAACP. It was for these reasons that Parks seemed to have the attributes needed to take the lead on the federal case. However, she was convicted on December 5, 1955 and her lawyer filed an appeal with the Alabama appeals courts. According to Schwartz (2009), Parks’ case, while on appeal with the State court, her federal case could not be heard until the state had acted.
As nearly 750,000 blacks relocated to northern cities, many sensed the possibility of political power for the first time in their lives. Fortunately, they had an outspoken advocate of civil rights in the White House itself: Eleanor Roosevelt repeatedly antagonized southern Democrats and members of her husband’s administration by her advocacy of civil rights and her participation in integrated social functions. Blacks understood the irony of fighting for a country that denied their equality and they challenged the government to finally live up to its lofty creeds. Roosevelt let stand the policy
Next week, our group will meet with the governer of New York. He has promised to help our cause. I met his wife last month at a rally in New York City. We signed up more than 5 hundred people before we were arrested for causing a public
So much so what could be called, “…the most hope-filled, union in the nation’s history…” (Pg.174 A History of Hope) was formed, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). With over two hundred delegates and many more industrial workers the goal of the IWW was to create worker solidarity and social freedom for those involved with the group. The Lawrence Strike of 1912 is a perfect example of the impact the IWW had on its members. On New Year’s Day 1912 a new law was passed cutting the wages of the workers. By the time everyone received his or her paychecks two weeks later.
The quite upstate New York town of Seneca Falls played host to what would later come to be known as the starting point of the modern women's movement. Convened in July 1848 and organized by the activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, the Seneca Falls Convention drew three hundred delegates to discuss and formulate plans to advance the political and social rights of women. 10. Fredrick Douglas was a renowned abolitionist that participated with forty men and women delegates. 11.