Women's Suffrage Impact

Starting in 1954 African Americans decided once and for all that now was a sweet time for a revolution. Since the moment they were forced to come to this country they have been treated worse than terrible. They have had to fight and claw for every right they have, and between 1954 and 1965 was an important war. In these years the civil rights movement changed the lives of African Americans for the better, it got the buses and schools desegregated, and gave African Americans the right to vote. In these years separate was no longer considered equal.

One major change was women throughout the 1920s. The most important reason was equal suffrage. For the longest time, women were not allowed to vote because they were not recognized as worthy members of society. Many people, men and women alike, thought this was very unfair. On August 18th, 1920, women were granted their rights through the 19th Amendment.

This gave the African Americans more of a voice in what happened in society, proving to the public what kind of potential influences they had.

Women have always wanted equal rights and fought to gain equality. On August 1920 the 19th amendment was ratified into the Constitution. The 19th amendment stated that no one will be denied the right to vote based on your sex. This changed everything for the women in the US. Women everywhere started to work more and started to rely less on men.

Women’s Suffrage: did or did it not change in America? Alice Paul, a young women fighting for rights, went on a hunger strike in prison to stand up for what she believed in. Paul and other suffragists were arrested and sent to Occoquan Workhouse, in Virginia. These women were fighting for their rights to vote, to be as equal as men.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not the only law that benefited African Americans and showcased their success with the uplifting movement. After the violence in Selma the government felt like they had to do something to protect their citizens, so they decided to write the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to help African Americans officially earn the right to vote (Landau). This was a major decision for the government but overall it gave the movement the recognition it deserved for creating such a powerful impact on treatment of African Americans. Thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 many African Americans were able to vote and many African Americans were also put into office because of this one law (Landau 39). The United States would now have African Americans in powerful and important positions in the government instead of just whites.

By letting people vote this exercised their human rights. Women in the early 1900’s were dehumanized and stripped of this right. I believe the 19th Amendment was important because it provides more job opportunities, a voice in society, and access to better education. I. Background information: A:The 19th Amendment accomplished things including it giving women the right

In terms of reviving rights for the minorities, civil rights movement made it as one of the innovative movement of the 90s in America. Even though it failed to erase the De facto segregation which caused the African American face tedious times in the employment sector, it still did considerable amount of success in holding its legacy. Martin Luther King Jr. could be said as the most intellectual civil rights leader which made the episodes of brutality over the blacks get notified by the southern white leaders. Soon enactment of 15th amendment granted the blacks the right to vote, making the blacks the right of their say in the political department of the country. “it is estimated that thousands of Black men used their votes to help keep the Republicans in power.

On august, 6, 1965 President Lyndon Johnson signed a law that made it easier for African Americans to vote in the US elections. Up until that time, some community’s attempted to discriminate against black people and members of other minority group. They required voters to take written tests or pay special taxes four the write to vote The Voting Rights Act of 1965 put an end to voter discrimination.

Some of the blacks that had positions in government, such as Abraham Colby, were sometimes beaten by people that opposed the Radical Republicans. If an African American were to be elected for any position in government, they most likely to tried to make strides for other African Americans. This is in turn caused more of an uproar between the two races as the roles that blacks were suppose to fill, were not being followed. In some cities most blacks were being denied basic rights, that had been granted to them previously. People were being denied access to the churches, beaten, getting their homes and properties destroyed, and threatened greatly.

Originally, African Americans had to be segregated and weren’t even allowed to vote. In 1965 after the Montgomery March, Lyndon B Johnson passed the Voting Rights Act, and later in 1968 both the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and the Fourteenth Amendment were passed. The Fourteenth Amendmendment said that “all persons born of naturalized in the United States” could legally vote. These acts got rid of literacy tests, and in 1968, when Nixon became president (Document H), there was over two times the amount of African American voters than there was in 1960 (Document G). African Americans also gained large support from a president, John F. Kennedy, which wasn’t something anyone had expected looking back at how past presidents acted.

The voting act was an act that supported that african americans have the right to vote like any white man. Another tactic used was the idea of Black Nationalism. African Americans united together was under Malcolm X and islam. Malcolm X gave African Americans a idea of black nationalism and that they are good and better than white people. Also SNCC, which used to have white members purged them all so that the African Americans can do things themselves without the help of any white men.

African Americans have scored major gains, especially in the political realm. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has brought dramatic increases in the size of the black electorate. African Americans have become an important voting bloc in most urban centers as well as in many areas of the rural South. The number of black elected officials has more than quadrupled. Black mayors started governing many of our largest cities.

Although technically people of color had the right, white people were making it very difficult to register. When African Americans went to register they would be tested continuously, something white people never had to deal with. Only two percent of African Americans in the south could vote. Before the march from Selma to Montgomery there were many protests to try to gain fair voting rights. One man, Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed at a peaceful protest by a state trooper.

We all know that women didn 't have as many rights as men, and they still don 't. Women can now do more than they used to, but they still aren 't equal with men. They have had to fight for so many things like the right to vote and to be equal to men. The 19th amendment, the one that gave women the right to vote, brought us a big step closer. The Equal Rights Movement also gave us the chance to have as many rights as men. Women have always stayed home, cleaned the house, and didn 't even get an education.