ver their reproductive health, gaining property, right to work and get equal pay and other rights that were given to men. Because of the need to enjoy equal rights as men, women have come up with many movements that have enabled them to fight for their rights. As a matter of fact, most of the Women's Rights Movements have yielded results. On the other hand, the Civil Rights Movement denoted the struggle exhibited by the African Americans around the period of the mid-1950s. The aim of the movement was to be able to achieve equal civil rights for the African Americans as was with the Caucasian Americans. As a result, both Women’s Rights Movement and Civil Rights Movement have established the new vision of democracy for every people in the U.S.
…show more content…
In the 1960’s, women were limited in their work, and they were expected to marry in the 20’s and focus on homemaking. The feminist movements that happened in 1960’s and 70’s were geared towards dismantling workplace inequality and ensuring that women received equal pay as men. These feminist also realized that women were denied some jobs even when they were qualified and sought to address the issue. During this era, the Women's Rights Movement was reformed, and it was known as the Women’s Liberation Movement. The women used the anti-discriminatory laws where Howard Smith in 1964 proposed to the government to declare that the discrimination of the civil rights because of gender was wrong. The Equal Employment Opportunity Right was passed, but a group of feminist realized that it was not enough to protect them. Betty …show more content…
Much of the progress came from African Americans themselves, and they were aided considerably by Supreme Court decisions. Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during the Civil Rights era, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman and others. They risked and sometimes lost their lives for freedom and equality in the world. The NAACP and other organizations brought a young Baptist minister on board to lead the boycott, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who for the rest of his short life, would be the foremost leader of the civil rights revolution. The most significant achievement of the Civil Rights Movements has been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of African American. People have also achieved the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moreover, these legal changes evenly distributed the opportunities available to other non African American minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination. African American activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. Civil rights
In the 1960’s, women were limited in their work, and they were expected to marry in the 20’s and focus on homemaking. The feminist movements that happened in 1960’s and 70’s were geared towards dismantling workplace inequality and ensuring that women received equal pay as men. These feminist also realized that women were denied some jobs even when they were qualified and sought to address the issue. During this era, the Women's Rights Movement was reformed, and it was known as the Women’s Liberation Movement. The women used the anti-discriminatory laws where Howard Smith in 1964 proposed to the government to declare that the discrimination of the civil rights because of gender was wrong. The Equal Employment Opportunity Right was passed, but a group of feminist realized that it was not enough to protect them. Betty …show more content…
Much of the progress came from African Americans themselves, and they were aided considerably by Supreme Court decisions. Many leaders from within the African American community and beyond rose to prominence during the Civil Rights era, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Andrew Goodman and others. They risked and sometimes lost their lives for freedom and equality in the world. The NAACP and other organizations brought a young Baptist minister on board to lead the boycott, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. who for the rest of his short life, would be the foremost leader of the civil rights revolution. The most significant achievement of the Civil Rights Movements has been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of African American. People have also achieved the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments such as the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moreover, these legal changes evenly distributed the opportunities available to other non African American minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination. African American activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. Civil rights