The American Civil Rights Movement In The 1970's

From the 1950s through the 1970s, American civil rights and feminist activists forced the nation to confront the proposition that citizenship should mean the same thing for all people.The American civil rights movement, sometimes referred to as the "African-American Civil Rights Movement" although the term "African American" was not used in the 1960s. The American civil rights movement was a movement to help people stop being judged because of their skin color and start being treated like and equal citizen. The feminist activities "The American Women's Movement" was another movement similar to the American civil rights movement which women fought for their own equal rights to men. Both the American civil rights and the American women's movement …show more content…
I feel that this was effective because it took a long time and a lot of different feminist groups before you started to see change in the women's corner. I feel that this movement is important because no human being deserves to be treated like a house slave. I know if i was stuck to just cleaning the house, doing laundry, cooking all the meals, and taking care of the kids every day I would be very unhappy with my life because I would like to much more then that. So I see the woman's point in trying to fight for equal opportunity for women in employment, education, the right to abortion, and the right to child care.

In the book Patrick D. Jones The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee it talks about the history of civil rights activism in Milwaukee after World War II. This book shows you examples of protests that has happened during the civil rights movement. It also show paths broken by prior scholarship on the northern struggle, going from campaigns against school segregation also for open housing and ending with welfare activists marching on the state capitol. the main topic i'm going to focus on is the campaigns in Milwaukee against school …show more content…
The American civil rights movement was a movement to help people stop being judged because of their skin color and start being treated like and equal citizen. The feminist activities "The American Women's Movement" was another movement similar to the American civil rights movement which women fought for their own equal rights to men. Both the American civil rights and the American women's movement had the same problem in which they were not treated as an equal citizen. So both stood up and took a stand and decided to confirm these groups so they could but a stop to the unfair equal treatment that women and african american people were getting during this time