African American Women In The Late 1960's

After World War II and during the late 1960’s America was segregated and full of discrimination at the time. Most ever ethnicity in America were living in poverty and work for low wages unlike most whites. Women were being treated unequal to the men and crying out for their voice to be heard. Seems that white men in America were not suffering like everyone else and saw themselves to be superior over everyone else. From the late 1940’s to the 1960’s the minorities and women came up with strategies and resisted white supremacist to make a change come about when it came to discrimination and segregation. And it was difficult for white supremacists particularly in the south to accept these changes.
However, hearing different speeches and the bus boycott, for the African Americans was one of

Woman were domestic slaves nothing more nothing less, that’s how the world viewed them. They were not supposed to have jobs outside of the home, just be a great or acceptable housewife, love their husband, and raised children was their job (Stern, Attacks). Women began to question why they did not have the same opportunities as the men. In 1966, the National Organization of Women was created to help women utilize their privileges and help them become equivalent to the men economical, socially, and politically. They were protesting because they were tired of getting jobs that involved domestic work; not getting a job because they were a woman, setting behind a desk, low wages and idea of what a woman was supposed to do in over-all. Women protesting and created other organizations, sign petitions and so on to start exercising their rights (National, “Statement”). The women would no longer see themselves as just housewives or mothers, but women with a future and, ambition, along with new opportunities in