By the end of 1969, 34,000 men had refused induction (Hedda 74).” Baez’s actions in protests had influenced the lives of many. By telling people about war, she talked some out of joining the army, not individually, but as groups. Taking her career to an advantage, Baez sang about war and held anti-war concerts, where she would sing about war. “The antiwar movement continued to gain momentum (Hedda 75).” Baez was very much visible in civil-rights marches, becoming even more vocal about her disagreement about the war in Vietnam. In 1964, she decided to resist paying taxes by keeping sixty percent of her income taxes in 1963.
She was also put on trial and fined. She refused to pay the unjust fine which denied her chance to appeal, but was not imprisoned for it. Congress laughed at her when she gathered petitions from twenty six states and ten thousand signatures asking for passage of a suffrage movement. In territories where women had the vote, Anthony campaigned to make sure they were not blocked from joining the union (“Biography” 3). She composed and published “The History of Women Suffrage”, founded the International Council of Women, and the International Woman Suffrage Council.
The suit sparked her career as a journalist. “Many papers wanted to hear about the experiences of the 25-year-old school teacher who stood up against white supremacy” (Baker 1). Her writings made it difficult to lead a normal life. They got her fired from her job and almost killed when she began to write the facts about lynching. Wells was born as a slave during the second year of the Civil War six months before the publication of the Emancipation Proclamation.
A few methods to stop oppositions of feminism, as seen in the novel, were to silence them. The government hired spies and tyrants to rule over villages in order to intimidate them. This is shown in Hang’s village with her uncle being the dictator. Although the people wanted to obtain peace and equality in their genders, they feared the government’s threats of exile and Thomas 2 public humility, as shown through Aunt Tam and her brother. This leads to the acceptance of treating women unfairly in Vietnam because it was between either accepting it or being exiled.
I knew all week it would come to this.” (Miller, 57) This shows how much hatred was omitted from her. She wanted to get out of a sticky situation and so she went and ruined other people’s lives. This relates to the US government because they wanted to “protect” the United States even though these Japanese Americans had not done anything wrong. John Proctor is like the Japanese Internment Victims. He was thrown in jail because he might be a witch.
There, participants sign a Declaration of Sentiments, which calls for equal treatment of women and men under the law and voting rights for women. The women's rights movement has begun. (The Post and Courier, 1995-2013). 1916: Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn and within 10 days is arrested. She continues to fight to establish women's right to control their own bodies and opens another clinic, with legal support, in 1923.
In the article selected, Couple Wins Suit, Doc Didn't Suggest Aborting Baby With Down Syndrome, the author, Rebecca Taylor, discusses a court case in Oregon in which Ariel and Deborah Levy filed a lawsuit against their doctor for failing to let them know that their daughter would be born with Down Syndrome. Taylor's subjectivity comes through in almost every word in type. Carefully chosen phrases such as "$2.9 million for saying you would have killed your child" (Taylor, 2012) leave no room for mistaking the authors opinions. Taylor communicates disdain for the subjects of her article in many ways. It is apparent what her personal beliefs are, even though they are never stated.
Both groups of women were campaigning and fighting for the same thing, but the way they achieved the vote was very different. First of all the Suffragists only protested and campaigned without violence and they were law abiding. They thought that they should prove to the men that they were responsible and could act in a civilised manner. The Suffragists held meetings all over the country, they held over 1,300 meetings in 1877-78. You would have found that most of the campaigners were middle class women.
Anthony. While Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a wife and mother, served as the writer and idea-person of the two, Susan B. Anthony, never married, was more often the organizer and the one who traveled, spoke widely, and bore the brunt of hostile public opinion. “…Susan B. Anthony, a militant lecturer for women’s rights, fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets.” 3 In 1872, in an attempt to claim that the constitution already permitted women to vote, Susan B. Anthony cast a test vote in Rochester, New York in the presidential election. She was arrested, charged with illegal voting, and found guilty, though she refused to pay the resulting fine and no attempt was made to force her to do so. “…I not only committed no crime, but, instead, simply exercised my citizen's right, guaranteed to me and all United States citizens by the National Constitution, beyond the power of any State to deny.”
Martin Luther King Jr. states “Oppressed People cannot remain oppressed forever.” (Cahn, 2009 p. 387) As we have seen throughout history, this is a true statement. Oppression is not something that sits well with any type of person that is under the oppression. To resist the oppression, one must carefully chose those laws that they fill are unjust and oppresses them, and once they are chosen then one can make a stand against the oppression. Oppression is unjust law that limits the power of the people that are oppressed into feeling powerless. The United States fought of the oppression over the colonies in the late 1700’s by first peacefully protesting the unjust taxes waged against them.