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Civil Rights and Wrongs- //Rule to Remember-Justice Delayed is Justice Denied. William Gladstone // The items below should be related to the meaning of citizenship in the United States? What are the rights and responsibilities? How has America denied certain citizens equal opportunities? What have various groups and individuals done to gain opportunity and status over the course of the century? What has be done to deny individuals rights and opportunities and why? 1900 Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washinton wrote a book in 1901 called Up from Slavery whitch was his autobiography. Booker T. Washinton became a teacherin Tinkersville, West Virginia but only for three years,in 1878 booker left Tinkersville to attend Wayland Seminary in Washington DC, but quit after six months. In 1881 Booker was asked to become prinicpal of a new school called Tuskegee Institute,Alabama. September,1895, Washington gave his speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Expostion in Atlanta was reported by the countrys newspapers and his speech became a national figure. Washington died at the age of 59 years.


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1910 Women’s Suffrage Movement Women's Suffrage- In the early 19th century may women were second-class citizens because their life only consisted of taking care of their homes and their familys. Many women after they were married were not allowed to own property, maintain wages, sign a contract, or even vote. Many women in the 19th century had to be independent on their husbands. Women were not allowed to travel or better yet speak in public. Women had to listen to their husbands at all times and the women were inferior to their husbands. Alice Paul and The National Women's Party begun using more tactics to work for a federal suffrage amendment to the constitution. The women staged the white house with large marches and demonstrations, going to jail. While these women were going on march they would strave their self the whole time through out the march and the police forced tubes down the womens throat so that they could eat. Thousands of women took part in these marches. In 1913 Paul led a march of eight thousand women on President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration day. During the second inaugural Paul led a march around the White House. During World War 1, when women took up jobs in factories to support the war, as well as taking more active roles in the war than in previous wars. After the war, even the more restrained National American Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt, took many opportunities to remind the President, and the Congress, that women's war work should be rewarded with recognition of their political equality. Wilson responded by beginning to support woman suffrage. On June 4, 1919, the United States Senate also endorsed the Amendment, voting 56 to 25, and sending the amendment to the states. And so on August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, and women could vote in the fall elections, including in the Presidential election. \
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1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 Jim Crow The Jim Crow Laws are "de jure segregation" which means "separate but equal". Jim Crow laws were segregation of public schools, public places and public transportation. Places were seperate but not completely equal. For example, on a bus white people could over rule a black person and take their seats. Even if it was in the back of the bus, which was supposed to be the "black section". Another example is in schools, white kids got better books and supplies than the black kids. The black kids would get hand-me down books. Jim Crow laws lasted from 1876 to 1965. Jim Crow laws completely ended due to the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. The Civil Rights Act made discrimination illegal and ask business owners to give equal opportunity employment. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott, to help stop segregation. After the boycott, there was still segregation in some parts of the south so the Congress of Racial Equality organized Freedom Rides.
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