Picketing

One of the first major demonstrations of First Wave Feminism was the picketing of the White House during President Wilson’s presidency. At the time Germany was progressing in gender equality faster then America was willing to. As Germany gave women the right to vote, American women were outraged that they were falling behind. The first major protest was a group of women picketing outside the White House. They were arrested after their banner 's, which compared America to Germany…

Of the women’s suffrage movement and its contributors Alice Paul stated, “I always feel...the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” Thousands of women were behind the passing and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Burns, a close friend of Paul’s. However, Paul was being too modest in her previous statement. She contributed much more than a little stone to the mosaic that was the…

employment. The Norris-LaGuardia Act protected workers from the threat of yellow-dog contracts, gave unions freedom to associate without molestation by employers, and barred federal courts from issuing injunctions preventing strikes, boycotts, and picketing. If Amazon learns anything from this act, it is that the federal government takes a worker’s right to engage in unionizing activities seriously. While organized labor at Amazon.com may cause an inconvenience to the company at first, managers…

women wore was historically accurate to the time period as most people during early 1900s wore long formal skirts and colorful hats. The portrayal of Inez Milholland riding a white horse in the parade was also an example of historical accuracy. The picketing outside the White House was a precise depiction of what the National Women’s Party did to peacefully protest for women’s rights during the time of war. The signs are also the same ones that were used in real life. The women’s arrest and…

He boycotted nonviolently using strategies such as strikes, fasts, picketing, and marches. The people of the nation appealed to him because of insistence on nonviolence, his reliance on volunteers from urban universities and religious organizations, his alliance with organized labor, and his use of mass mobilizing techniques…

Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement. Employees are often represented in bargaining by a union or other labor organization. Collective bargaining is governed by federal and state statutory laws, administrative agency regulations, and judicial decisions. In areas where federal and state law overlap, state laws are…

that I belonged. I was sure that this was the beginning of a new era of American democracy” (Negroes with Guns, xviii). Upon returning home from the Marines, Robert Williams perceptions of American society and American democracy changed due to the picketing of a town swimming pool in Monroe, North Carolina, the subsequent arrival of Freedom Riders, and…

King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference began in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a non-violent campaign made up of African American people. Judge W. A. Jeakins issued a ruling preventing “parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing, and picketing.” The leaders decided not to follow this ruling, so Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and other Marchers were arrested. They were all treated very harshly in jail. One of their allies snuck in a newspaper which contained “A Call…

higher compensation for obtain those workers. The other factor is government, which creates the legal environment in which labor relations take place. Some examples of agencies to help and laws that assist in the legal environment for labor relations would the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) which is an independent federal agency that protects the rights of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions (NLRB, 2015). The…

elected to serve. To begin, there was a time in our history when women did not have the right to vote. Suffrage leader, Lucy Burns (1879-1966), was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, in 1917 after she and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women to vote. The right to vote wasn’t handed to women it, it had to be fought for. On election day 1920, millions of American women enjoyed the right to vote for the first time.…