Third World Women Alliance Summary

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The Desegregating Lunch Counters at Woolworth Sit-in, Third World Women Alliance, and The Sharon Statement made the US face a new issue to face. 1991, four students from A&T in Greensboro, NC began the sit-in at the Wool-Worth. They proceeded to have this sit-in to accomplish equal rights for African Americans. Respect was gained at the end of the sit-in for the four students. Third World Women Alliance started in the late 60’s and it was a liberation movement for African American Women.
The US was forced to recognize that there were feminist and equal rights problems for African Americans. The citizens didn’t agree with it and rebelled it. World Women Alliance did not get the reaction they wanted at the time. Sharon Statement is a statement
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The U.S. experiencing these policies affected the country in a negative and positive way. It built relationships with others outside of the country, but if it is affected in a negative way it can take a drastic change for the worst. If a drastic takes affect it’ll cause a foreign country to have a negative reason to be against us, it can cause a war, ban transport goods going back and forth to the U.S., and not to work together to fight against threatening movements. If the foreign countries and the U.S. work together it allows us to achieve greater things. These changes cause the U.S. to face to find a way to work together as a whole to exceed the expectation and needs they want to …show more content…
to the country it is to this day. As a country we faced, discrimination, equality movements, violence, war, and victories for those that deserved it. Through 1950 -1970 the U.S. was fighting for what they wanted, other foreign countries fought against and with the U.S. to achieve what is right. This caused movements to be created to voice their opinion, the president to change laws and people learn to love instead of hate. This day the U.S. is still facing foreign and domestic policy issues that people experience in the 1950-1970. As a country along with other countries in the world we are still learning, changing, and finding ways to achieve what is great for our country as a whole. There will be a day that everyone will be treated with the same equality

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