Women Of The Civil Rights Movement Essay

Aneiss Sayles

The Women Of the Civil Rights Movement

Introduction (What you will be addressing)

When you think of the civil rights who are the first people who come to mind? Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. right? Rosa Parks the black woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus. Martin Luther the preacher whose speeches inspired the masses. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther are indeed a very big part of the civil rights. Some may argue that they were spark of the civil rights movement, and those people may be right. However they were not the only people who were actively involved in the movement. There are so many people who shaped the world for what it is today. These people are often not recognized and most of us probably can not even name any other people who were involved in the movement other than the two names mainly dropped. Well there stories are just as important and desrve regconiton as well.

The civil rights movement was a time where indviuals came together to end public acts of racial discrimintion and racism against people of color. Even

African American women were crucial in the battle for race equality. Altough Rosa Parks was a very important figure in the civil rights movement was not the only woman who voiced her opinnion. Many women played the background roles most not by choice. Being a women of color at that menat facing both sexism, and racism. Women very much were there, but women had specific roles. It Seemed as if men were the only ones to pilot the civil rights movement, because mens roles were the roles mostly highlighted. A lot of women did not play big roles many women did have some roles. Roles like marching, cooking, and cleaning for the leaders of the civil rights movement. Sexism had a very negative effcet on women because it utimately held them back, but that did not stop women from voicing their