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Research Paper On Women's Rights And African-America

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Women’s Rights and African-American Women
MiKayla Jefferson
IB History of the Americas
Mr. Poitier

November 17, 2017

Student declaration: I assert that this historical investigation is solely my authentic work. I understand that if this work is copied or plagiarized that my historical investigation will not be submitted to the IBO and I will receive no grade from the IBO.

Women’s Rights
On August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment granted the right to vote over 26 million women in the United States. This pivotal moment empowered women to have a voice that would affect their communities, their families and their personal future. July 13, 1948 marks the beginning of the Women’s Right Movement. This movement would go on to …show more content…

This book discusses the failures of the women’s liberation movement and how it impacted black women in the United States. In the beginning, Hooks expresses her frustrations with the liberation movement concerning black women. Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism talks about how the white society pinned stereotypes on black women and broke down their will causing the devaluation of their womanhood. It also shows the deep interconnections between sex and race, the workplaces black women’s struggle for liberation in the context of a larger movement for the liberation of all people. This book is relevant to the proposed investigation because it is provided from a woman's perspective that actually lived through the fight for all women's rights. The author is also African-American and further went on to aid in the fight for black women’s rights. Bell performed research over the course of an eight year period focusing on the discussions which included “Black Women and Feminism.” This book is contains chapter titles which are timeless, including: Sexism and the Black Female Slave Experience; Continued Devaluation of Black Womanhood; The Imperialism of Patriarchy; The Issue of Accountability and Black Women and Feminism. I will be able to see what they went through, how they were …show more content…

The National Association of Colored Women’s (NACW) was formed in Washington, D.C and gave people a view in the history of black women. Although there were organizations for women, they were white women clubs and black women were not allowed to become members. Another reason was because of the priorities black women had for their clubs, they were fighting for equal women rights while white women already had theirs. The first president of the NACW organization was Mary Church Terrell. Terrell wrote an autobiography that encouraged black women and men to support women's suffrage out of a sense of justice even though it was hard to hold that view when white males, white females and even black males felt like they had no worth. The NACW used the motto “Lifting As We Climb” with the purpose everyone that back women have the same goals with those of all good aspiring women. This idea came from the General Federation of Women’s Club, which was the white club. Both of the organizations were very much alike and consisted of educated women who never questioned the superiority of middleclass values or way of life, or had any romantic notions of the inherent nobility of the poor. They believed in the importance of the woman’s moral influence in the home and had the same perspective of the women within them. There were little differences between the black

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