The Mississippi Improvement Committee is a rather abstruse name for a group advocating women’s rights and rights for all races. The name, and the people behind this group casts a positive light. What McGuire best shows is how this group has been neglected by history and how it has been “left in the footnotes of history.” McGuire states, “Georgia Gilmore and her club (MIA) from Nowhere, “represented more than the actual cash they contributed each week,” B.J. Simms insisted.…
Gender effect in the Sierra Leone War Through Ishmael Beah and Mariatu Kamara’s autobiographies, the world learned about the devastating war in Sierra Leone through the eyes of a boy and a girl. The civil war stripped children from their families and killed many innocent civilians. In A Long Way Gone by Beah Beah he says, “One of the main aims of the rebels was to force the civilians to stay with them, especially women and children” (Beah 37). The rebels used the civilians as either bait for the army or as servants. They took girls to cook or exploit and recruited boys as soldiers.…
It was created to help the lives of black women in the south.…
Over the weekend, a women's march took place in California. It was a march on the raising stories that have recently been shared about sexual assault and harassment. There was an estimated amount of half-million people dressed up in all pink or brightly colored costumes. Between shouting speeches and celebrity revokes, the march was well respected for.…
In the first article, “City Girl”: A Portrait of a Successful White Urban Teacher, the two methods of qualitative research that the researcher used were interviews and classroom observations. Harding noted that the amount of data she collected allowed her to provide a thick description (p. 54). The interviews that were conducted were of the teacher and administrators. One thing I would have like to have read about is what the students had to say.…
Justice is defined as the attainment of what is just, especially that which is fair, moral, right, merited, or in accordance with law. Although justice is commonly affiliated with the punishment of one who has broken the law, that is not always the case. There are some cases in which the convicted criminal is also a victim, which causes normal areas of black and white to fade to grey. In “A Jury of Her Peers,” written by Susan Glaspell, this grey area is what results in the main conflict for Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters. These women decide to keep what they know to themselves, directly defying their husbands.…
The Civil War was a rebellion that took place from 1861-1865 and determined the rights of African-Americans in the U.S. Before this point, half of the country was for slavery, and half was not. We struck a battle to determine weather slavery was right or wrong. Although most know the answer is obviously that it is wrong, but back then people had to have not had a sense of a moral compass. The taking away of basic human rights is not only morally wrong, but unconstitutional. We need our rights because they protect our freedom, they protect our well-being, and they remind us that we fought through the hardships.…
The organization assists females all over the country to get justice when they are being discriminated in various fields. For example, industry, the professions, churches, political parties, judiciary, labor unions, in education, science, medicine, law, religion and every other field of importance in American society. The organization goes about creating these changes through laborious lobbying, rallies, marches, and conferences. It gives money for legal and educational defense. NOW takes the issues to court and to pursue its legal cases.…
African Americans have been a part of music since the beginning of time, and not always in the best way possible. From the crude and grotesque humor of minstrelsy to the ridicule and appropriation of ragtime, African Americans have been the punchline to a longstanding joke of stereotypes in pre-1920’s music. With the introduction of sheet music creating a tangible and efficient way to distribute music, the racist representations of African Americans were forever preserved and widely perpetuated as a means of generating popularity and revenue. This is especially true in the case of how composers presented African American women during this period. From 1890-1920, the depictions of African American women in sheet music capitalized upon the public’s…
The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966. They are one of the largest organizations for feminist grassroots activists in the United States. The National Organization for Women has thousands of members and activists in the United States. NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life. NOW has activists that push for both traditional and nontraditional means of social change.…
The UER (United to End Racism) is an international group of people who are of all ages and backgrounds. They are trying to eliminate racism for the entire world; for they “understand that eliminating racism is necessary for humankind to progress”. Their message is simple, to illuminate the damage done to individuals by racism, and to undo the damage on an individual basis. Yet, their simple message seems to be blaming racism on those who are most directly affected by racism. They say to interrupt racism in their daily lives, to free themselves from all of racism's effects, to take leadership, to form deep relationships across racial lines, and to support the work of other individuals and organizations in ending racism.…
Leslie Morgan Steiner, a former abuse victim, stressed the importance of identifying the red flags of relationship abuse. Steiner gave a speech at Central Connecticut State University Alumni hall on the myths and misconceptions on relationship abuse last Wednesday. “Abuse is not about hitting somebody, it’s about using violence and control to dominate them,” said Steiner, author of the New York Times best seller Crazy Love. Steiner grew up in an abuse-free home in Washington, eventually graduating Harvard with a B.A. in English. She moved to New York City and worked full-time at Seventeen Magazine.…
She refuses to live the subservient life that George Murchinson, a potential suitor, believes she should. She is most attracted to Asagai, another potential suitor, because of his racial authenticity. However, she was “not interested in being someone’s little episode” (64). She appreciates that Asagai does not change who he is because of circumstances or surroundings. However, his real intentions with Beneatha are obscure.…
Woman of Pride Zora is a woman with strong self-pride and appreciation of heritage, despite the fact that she is discriminated against because the color of her skin. Growing up in a “blacks only” town in Eatonville, Florida not being able to fully differentiate between whites and blacks, as an adolescent Zora displayed herself as a jester to the white people that would only ride through town traveling to Orlando, she would dance and sing for a few dimes ignoring her family wishes of not talking to the white tourists. At the age of thirteen Zora got a taste of harsh reality. Zora was sent to school in Jacksonville, during a time where racism and oppression were prevailing and ruthless, “I remember the very day that I became colored” (Hurston…
Malala Yousafzai once said “We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past” (Yousafzai). The story “A Jury of Her Peers” is an intriguing story about a murder in which anti feminism plays a role. Feminism is an ideology still around today, in which some disagree with. Throughout the country thousands of people gather to protest for equality for women.…