Compare And Contrast Women And Civil Rights Movement

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People are marching in the streets, some holding signs, reading slogans that help defend the rights of the discriminated. This happened in both the African American Civil Rights Movement and in the Women’s Liberation movement. Two movements, one cause; to get equal rights. In the African American’s case, they were discriminated against due to their race. They were oppressed by the Jim Crow laws that were molding a unequal lifestyle for the blacks. Women’s Liberation, however, was about women who were forced to stay at home, because that is where people thought they belonged. Women were also granted unfair wages as compared to men. African Americans and Women were both fighting to get equal rights, which creates similarities and differences …show more content…

Women had been “denied basic rights, trapped in the home [their] entire life and discriminated against in the workplace”(http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/). Women wanted a political say and wanted people to look at them the way people would look at men. in 1968, many women even protested the Miss America Beauty Pageant because it made it look that women were only worth their physical beauty. A stereotyped image was not the only thing they fought, “Women also fought for the right to abortion or reproductive rights, as most people called it” (http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/). These were the reason why the Women started the Women’s Liberation. African Americans, however, had different causes. After almost a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, black men are still being treated unfairly. They were being oppresed by the so-called “Jim Crow” laws which “barred them from classrooms and bathrooms, from theaters and train cars, from juries and legislatures” (http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/). They wanted equal rights, equal facilities and equal treatment as the whites. This unfairness sparked the African American Civil Right’s Movement. This unfairness was seen in the Women’s Liberation as well. Both were treated unfairly by the “superior”. Both wanted equal rights, from the men or whites oppressing them. They both wanted equal treatment and equal rights. During the actual movement …show more content…

They pass many laws about employment and abortion along with others. In 1971, during the Phillips v. Martin Marietta case, “the Supreme Court rules that an employer violates Title VII when it refuses to hire women with young children while hiring men who are similarly situated.” (https://www.aclu.org/files/). This prevents discrimination while hiring. In 1973, during the Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court rules that a woman 's right to abortion is part of the constitutional right to privacy.“ (http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/). This gives the women the reproductive rights they wanted. The cases that the African American’s won were also important. In 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson case, the Supreme Court made a decision which “allowed the use of ‘separate but equal’ racially segregated accommodations and facilities.” (http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/). This prevented segregation on buses and other facilities. Another important case was the 1954 Brown v Board of Education, in which “the Court prohibited racial segregation of public schools.” (http://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/). These landmark cases impacted and advanced the movement by granting the oppressed one more right. The Supreme Court gave the women and African Americans different rights, but

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