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Comparing The Women's Suffrage And The Civil Rights Movement

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During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s women’s suffrage was a huge epidemic in the United States along with the rest of the world. Not only was the United States in the fight for women’s rights, so were places like London, Australia, and even the Bahamas. Women’s suffrage was fighting the right for women to be able to vote within their territory. Women’s suffrage has been going on for centuries and is still a problem within the community that has switched over to gender equality. But was the Civil Rights Movement blinding the issues in the Bahamas? During the late 1940’s and the early 1960’s the Bahamas had their women’s suffrage. It however, got looked over due to the “Burma Road Riot of 1942”, the “General Strike of 1958”, and the Civil …show more content…

In today’s society we still have a form of Movements within the racial and gender aspects. Now we have the NAACP that is one of the eldest organization groups for African-Americans in the United States. One of the original members included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, James Weldon Johnson, and many more members that participated in the civil rights. Some original member were abolitionists such as Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard. Feminist that still live on today fight fir the right of gender equality, race, sexual, and etc. that society has faced as a problem within ourselves. The difference between the feminist and the people who participated in the women’s suffrage is that the women’s suffrage was majority female activist. Today feminist is made up from anyone who is male or female, black or white, heterosexual or homosexual.
The Women’s Suffrage Movement and Civil Right Movement also had its many differences and many similarities to them both, but in the long run they both had meaningful impact in our world as today and many overcomes during the journey of

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The book ‘Long Island and the Woman Suffrage Movement’, written by Antonia Petrash is a reflection upon the many Long Island women who took a stand for independence and made winning the vote their life’s work. The author begins each chapter by drawing you into a story, then unfolds the character’s biography. It highlights the dedicated support from Long Island women of all classes; the elite socialites, the working and non-working women, to the first African American woman to found a suffrage organization. New York State was the birth of the Women's Rights Movement with the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls in 1848. Early suffragettes had set the foundation, and for seventy-two years national and international women would

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This movement fought for the right for women to vote because women were denied the democratic rights that were given to men and were forced to focus on the cult of domesticity. The movement started in the late eighteenth century however it was renewed during the Second Great Awakening when reform movements started gaining popularity. The suffrage movement was aided by the abolition movement because slavery gave women a reason to unite for a separate cause. This was a new reform movement, unlike women’s suffrage and abolition, which both had roots that were as deep as those of the country’s, and was unique because of the unusually undemocratic responses that society and its people reacted with. Unlike abolition and women’s suffrage, the asylum and penitentiary reform movement did not gather popularity

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Women used many different methods to earn the right to vote in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. One method women used to earn support is that they organized a parade in Washington, D.C., the same day the president was coming into town so that there was large crowds. Many of the people in the crowd were men who, along with drinking also disagreed with the right for women to vote. They began to yell then even throw objects at the women walking in the parade. Eventually, the police walked away giving the men the opportunity to attack.

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(Dubois, 189) For instance, African American women also began their suffrage by forming the National Association of Colored Women in 1903. " …with links to the Democratic Party and the labor movement, A Women 's Henry George Society, and a female wing of William Randolph Hearst 's Independence League." (Dubois 189) This quote presents several of representatives that women had done to the whole society.

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Adding on to other limitations, women almost had no freedom in their marriage. Before the women’s rights movement, when a woman is married the “husband and wife are one person” but “that person is the husband” (Doc 7). Once a woman is married, her rights and property were governed by the husband. Married women could not make wills or dispose of any property without their husband’s consent to do so.

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