Race over Gender Many fought for the rights and equality of African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. ... This clearly shows that Hamer placed race above gender in her efforts in the Civil Rights Movement. ... The women of the Civil Rights Movement played key roles in the success of it, but got little to know credit because of the masculinized view of women's roles and how they pertained to leadership. ... Hamer, ultimately, lost this battle when the Civil Rights Movement accomplished its goal in the Civil Rights Act in 1968, and she went on to fight other battles, but disappe...

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Throughout the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, and the Civil Rights Movement, many brave individuals made contributions to help society by proving that indeed, there is a better future for the city. ... The establishment of the Hull House was a spark toward public health, women's suffrage, civil rights, international peace, and public housing movements. ... Parks would not stop, though, as she continued to make others aware of the Civil Rights Movement. ... By this, King wanted to get other blacks involved in the Civil Rights Movement so that they could make a better society...

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Rights given to us from our creator. ... From this thrust forth a new movement and new leaders of this movement to ensure these basic rights were also shared by black women as well. Angela Davis is a well know civil rights activist that contributed vastly to the cause. ... She was pressed into fighting for civil rights as early in life as elementary school. ... I personally believe without her the movement for equal rights for African American women would not have been as strong as it was with her. ...

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Then the first Women's Rights Convention was held on July nineteenth and twentieth in 1848. ... Women's Rights Conventions were held on a regular basis from 1850 until the start of the Civil War. ... The women's rights movement of the late nineteenth century went on to address the wide range of issues spelled out at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... There were some very important women involved in the Women's Right Movement. ... These women are the reason that women finally got rights in the United States and could be considered the founding mothers of this country. ...

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Women's Rights Throughout history, women have always been second class citizens, the lower class of human beings. This essay will be portraying the women's rights movement throughout history. ... Women have never been considered a strong figure in politics, but on July 13th, 1848, something happened that would slowly change the way the world views women in politics, the women's rights movement was born. ... In 1928, the Inter-American Commission of Women was created specifically fight for the civil and political rights of women. ... Then in 1964, the Civil Rights Act was...

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The Women's Rights Movement started around the late 1700's and is still being continued by the women of today. ... This in part inspired the key women involved in the early Women's Rights Movement (Encarta). ... Anthony started her involvement in the Women's Rights Movement when she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention. ... Lucretia Coffin Mott was another of the main women in the movement. ... Mott being a Quaker, preached non-violence so therefore was opposed morally to the Civil War. ...

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She wanted to win the battle of equal rights for women. ... This way they were showing a non-violent civil disobedience campaign. ... In 1923, she showed the first Equal Rights Amendment in Congress. She later worked on the civil rights bill and fair employment practices. ... Without Alice Paul and her aggressive actions in the Woman's Rights Movement, we could easily say that the movement would be a lot slower. ...

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The women of this movement were fighting for something they wanted and something they believed they felt they deserved. ... At the convention in Seneca Falls the men and women of the movement wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. In this Declaration of Sentiments the women demanded equal rights in education, equal rights in employment opportunities, and voting rights. Within the next 72 years women have gained equal rights in education, employment opportunities, and voting rights. ... Compare this with male-led independence movements such as the Revolutionary and Civi...

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Anthony in the women's rights movement and formed the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869 and was the first president of the association until 1890. ... The Declaration of Sentiments was organized to uphold the rights of women to be equal to those of men. ... If the woman was married, she technically gave away her rights as a citizen; including all rights to property and her wages. ... Abolition up until the civil war led to the start of women's rights movement. Within the women's rights movement was the women's suffrage movement. ...

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There are parallels between the Southern Black's civil rights movement and the women's movement: Blacks have long been accustomed to the white government being unsympathetic to violent acts against them. During the civil rights movement, legal action seemed only to come when a white civil rights activist was killed. Women are facing similar disregard presently, and their movement is truly one for civil rights. ... This attitude of rising blatant and subtle attacks on women's civil rights is further exemplified in recent reactions to affirmative action plans. ... Johnson...

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The women's movement was also divided during this time. ... Too many focuses included those such as social reform, race issues, equal rights for women, equal pay, sexual freedom, not being confined to the home. ... There were simply too many other important things to focus on than the rights of women at this time. ... Eleanor talked about all the things FDR didn't want to talk about as president such as Civil Rights and the working class. ... Moreno also put together a civil rights agenda that stated factors such as; better education, better work conditions, healthcare, and equa...

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Elizabeth Stanton was one of the country's most influential forces in the women's civil rights movement; without her contribution women today might never have come so close to escaping their role as second class citizens. ... Elizabeth actually overcame her resentment to her father and became a very important person in the women's suffrage movement. ... Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a great leader of the women's rights movement, she took public stands for women and thanks to her efforts, women now have the right to vote (Women's suffragists). ... That proves the point...

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The Progressives were people who were part of a movement that started in the cities. ... One way this group wanted to expand the rights of the citizens was to create laws that would allow prepositions for laws on the ballot. ... Another group of Progressives were the women's rights advocates. ... These clubs gave women organizational and civil experience. ... There were two subgroups in this part of the Progressive movement. ...

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Emmeline Pankhurst was a leader of the women's suffrage movement which helped give women the right to vote. ... " The speech is often considered to be the start of the Western feminist movement's urgency to advocate for its rights. ... Emmeline Pankhurst said while speaking, "I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain - it seems strange it should have to be explained - what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women.... " She was imprisoned 12 times fighting for the rights of women and when she traveled to Connec...

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This short narrative essay will explain how Susan through the "Temperance movement", "The Revolution" article and the " Women's Rights Campaigner" was able to bring her objectives forward as a world reformer. One of Susan's first active participation in the world of reform was in the temperance movement. ... In 1854, she devoted herself to the antislavery movement serving from 1856 to the beginning of the civil war in1861. ... Those words started the birth of the British militant movement. ... Through the "Temperance movement", "The Revolution" article and the " Women's Rights...

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The reformist suffrage movement was known as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and was run by Carrie Chapman Catt. ... The NAWSA separated the traditional association of woman's rights with the rights of blacks in order to gain support in the South without much success. ... In 1912 the progressive movement gave the NAWSA new life when labor, trade unions, socialists, and working woman started to back the woman's suffrage movement. ... Catt and the NAWSA were a group that could be negotiated with and be taken seriously in a civil manner. The NWP approach may hav...

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Women earned their rights through a movement that was started at the Seneca Falls convention. ... The third major woman in the women's rights movement was Susan B. ... In 1840 she became involved in the woman's rights movement and it was in 1850 that she made acquaintances with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ... When the Civil War came to an end, Susan B. ... Throughout her lifetime, she fought for women's rights, as well as playing an extremely active role in the temperance movement as well as the abolitionist movement. ...

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Lucy Stone Lucy Stone, was an "American reformer", who was a pioneer in the movement for women's rights. ... Along with those accomplishments she achieved many goals in the fight for not only Woman"s rights, but African American's rights as well. ... Sweeping the country with her wonderful gift of oratory, she interlaced her talks for the rights of slaves with her pleas for women's rights. ... This led the women's suffrage movement to split, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. ... After the Civil war and the abolition of sla...

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When the Civil War began. ... The movement seemed to be making more and more progress as the months rolled by. By 1920, much progress in the Women's Right Movement had been made. ... President Kennedy began to support women's cause and with that came the adding of "sex" to race, color, religion, and national origin in the Civil Rights Bill in Title VII. ... Finally on March 22, 1974 the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment took place. ...

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She stood up for her rights when she refused to give up her seat at the end of a tiring day for a white man. ... Stanton was a leader in the women's rights movement and they became close friends and allies. Susan became completely loyal to the cause of women's rights and became an important leader of the movement. ... Before and during the Civil War, Susan and Elizabeth support abolition. However, after the war many people showed small interest in supporting the women's rights movement and they then left the abolitionists to concentrate on their focus of women's ...

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During the time of abolition women of New York were fighting for equal rights. ... By shedding her slave name Truth felt she was truly free to travel about and fight for her rights, including the rights to her name. ... That same year, Truth spoke at the first National Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Many did not want Truth to speak as they felt, despite ever hearing her speak, that she would change to meeting into a civil rights movement. ... Truth is remembered as one of the foremost leaders of the abolition movement and an early advocate of woman's rights....

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The Civil war would not come to pass for another sixty years and there were few whites who opposed slavery. ... There she met important members of the abolitionist movement, including Frederick Douglass and George Benson, brother-in-law of the antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. ... speech at the Akron Women's Rights Convention in 1850 has gone down in history as one of the most significant expressions of the combined abolitionist and women's rights movement. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for other civil/human rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Oprah Win...

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Anthony was the first women's rights advocate. ... Anthony began her fight for rights before the U.S. Civil War. ... During the Civil War, Ms. ... One Civil War veteran stopped and said to a friend of Ms. ...

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Miss Anthony contributed to the women suffrage movement by founding a national organization, public lecturing, and putting national focus on the suffrage issue. ... Anthony demanded that women be given the same civil and political rights that had been given to black males under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. ... Her active participation in the movement for women suffrage started in the eighteen-fifties. ... Anthony started the women suffrage movement, but died before women gained the right to vote. ...

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For almost fifty years she led the first women's movement in America. ... In addition to suffrage, she promoted co-education, equal wages, property rights for wives, child custody rights for mothers, and reform of divorce laws. ... So why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton believe there were so many rights denied to the female sex? ... During a visit to Lucretia's home, as Elizabeth and some friends were discussing women's rights, they decided to sponsor a woman's rights convention (www.web24.epnet.com). ... The Feminist movement was stopped by the civil war as woman devoted their...

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