How Did Rosa Parks Influence The Women's Rights Movement

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“We learn from history that we do not learn from history”(Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel) Women then had less privilege from now, but this does not mean they are fine now. A big struggle that women have to go go through is not be able to vote. On Election day in 1920, many American women have the right to vote for the first time, “ It took activist and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once. (History.com Staff, 2009) August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the constitution was signed, that women could be able to vote. Women’s movement also pushed for women to rethink her roles. Furthermore, many women claimed that society did not …show more content…

Women were not allowed to attend church, but often had to sit behind the men or in another room. They never heard a woman's opinion. The home and the church was not the only place that they did not let women stand up for themselves. Women were not allowed to make any political decision or talk about political things. Women were also not allowed to vote. Women who stand up for themselves were often beat up. They are many women that stand up for themselves and others, but one woman that really inspires me is Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks stand up for herself and others. Rosa Parks was brave women, “ No actually, I had no fear at that particular time. I was determined to let it be known how it felt to be treated in the manner-- discriminated against. I was thinking mostly about how unconvinced I was-- stopping me from going home and doing my work--something I had not expected.” (Julie Ma, 2017) This quotes means that Rosa Parks did not had a fear because she was determined to make a change. When Rosa Parks did not moved from the front sit on the bus she got arrested. She did not moved because she wanted to let the bus driver know that he was treating people …show more content…

Wealthy women had time to educate themselves and then educational programs slowly started to happen,” Educational opportunities improved slowly as secondary schools, then colleges, were established for women.”(Women and equal rights, 2006) These women began to realize that they could live on their own and that they can’t be controlled by men. The wealthy had more free time, would teach the people that are not financial stable their status and beliefs. Women started to realize that men are not something that you really