African-American Civil Rights Movement and Women’s Rights Movement have some similarities. Firstly, both these two movements are started is because some groups of people couldn’t get full citizenship rights in the U.S. Their goals are both to get full citizenship to specific group of people, such as African-Americans and women. Secondly, through my research, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was banned segregation and discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, which is the goal of most civil rights movements (Anonymous 1). It demonstrates that the Civil Rights Act is benefited for African-Americans and women and also its passage is because of these two civil rights movements. Lastly, march was one of the most
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In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white but rider. This is the beginning of African-American Civil Rights Movement and Rosa Parks’ action inspired many other black people in the U.S. For example, from 1960 to 1961, Sit-ins was the protests by black college students that they took seats at “white only” lunch counter and refused to leave until served. But in the Women’s Rights Movement, everything is started by Friedan’s idea that women should be looking for a way to get the same equality as men. In 1963, Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique was published. According to a sentence of her book, “But the desperate tone in these women’s voices, and the look in their eyes, was the same as the tone and the look of other women, who were sure they had no problem, even though they did have a strange feeling of desperation (Anonymous 3).” This means that Friedan thought women shouldn’t being housewife forever and there was a problem deeply inside their soul that needed to solve. This is also an important sentence to remind other women that they shouldn’t only being housewife and they have to do things as men. So, women started their civil rights movement after they understood Friedan’s idea. In conclusion, African-American Civil Right Movement is started by Rosa Parks’ action in the bus, but Women’s Right Movement’s beginning is because of the publishment of Friedan’s book The Feminine
In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white but rider. This is the beginning of African-American Civil Rights Movement and Rosa Parks’ action inspired many other black people in the U.S. For example, from 1960 to 1961, Sit-ins was the protests by black college students that they took seats at “white only” lunch counter and refused to leave until served. But in the Women’s Rights Movement, everything is started by Friedan’s idea that women should be looking for a way to get the same equality as men. In 1963, Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique was published. According to a sentence of her book, “But the desperate tone in these women’s voices, and the look in their eyes, was the same as the tone and the look of other women, who were sure they had no problem, even though they did have a strange feeling of desperation (Anonymous 3).” This means that Friedan thought women shouldn’t being housewife forever and there was a problem deeply inside their soul that needed to solve. This is also an important sentence to remind other women that they shouldn’t only being housewife and they have to do things as men. So, women started their civil rights movement after they understood Friedan’s idea. In conclusion, African-American Civil Right Movement is started by Rosa Parks’ action in the bus, but Women’s Right Movement’s beginning is because of the publishment of Friedan’s book The Feminine