Why Is History Important To Me

Without Special Forces such as the economic system, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement and the 1st amendment I wouldn’t be able to do the things I do every day without thought. American History is very important to me well all history is important to me, notwithstanding the things my ancestors managed to make happen to make my everyday life easier. Being able to make my own decisions is very significant to me and I’m sure it is for everyone else as well. Fifty one years ago as an African American I wouldn’t be able to sit down in a restaurant and eat, sit at the front of a bus, try on clothes at a store, and I wouldn’t be able to hang out and go to school with some of my acquaintances that are Caucasian. The reason I get to sit in a restaurant is because of the sit ins that African American college students went through such as the four men that attended North Carolina …show more content…
The Women who were married had to stay home and take care of the children and the husbands and if she lived on the farm or plantation then she would work on it. If not for the women’s rights movement that started in 1848 which was a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where the Declaration of sentiments was signed by 68 women and 32 men and ended on 1920 on August 26 when the 19th Amendment was put into the constitution by the Secretary of State I still wouldn’t be able to do many things. To me this was one of the most important movements as a woman myself I wouldn’t be able to pursue my dreams and live the way I want to unless I wasn’t married. The women who fight in today’s society for women’s rights are called feminist. Every Women in today’s society should appreciate this movement it gave us the ability to get a fair education just like a man we now can serve in the army, be a police officer, doctor, lawyer, and we can even drive transfer