Civil Rights and Womens Voting Rights

On Election Day in 1920 millions of American women lined up to

exercise their right to vote for the very first time. It was a struggle to win
the right to vote taking activists like Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony, nearly 100 years to win this right and the fight was not easy.
Nevertheless, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was finally
ratified giving American women the right to vote and declaring that like
men they deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
A few years later a struggle just as important would arise. Nearly 100
years after the Emancipation Proclamation African American in Southern
states still lived in a mainly unequal world. With segregation, no rights,
violence, and racism. To try and reach equal rights activist used
nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. They aimed for the passage of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Some of
these activist included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm
X and many others.

Womens Voting Rights

http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/the-fight-for-womens-suffrage

1. What was the traditional role that women thought they had to
play?

2. Define the Equal Rights Amendment?

3. Why did abolitionist/activist meet in Seneca Falls, New York?

4. What did the Declaration of Sentiments proclaim?

5. What were the two womens groups that formed and what
were their main differences?

6. After the two groups merged to form the National American

Woman Suffrage Association what was their new approach?

After you finish the reading click on the following links within the
article:
7.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1. Give a brief summary of her involvement in the fight
for the right to vote.

8.

Susan B. Anthony
2. Give a brief summary of her involvement in the fight
for the right to vote.

Civil Rights Movement

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
1. Give a brief description of the Supreme Courts Brown v.
Board of Education of Topeka.

2. What did the Brown decision result in and how did it affect the
day to day African American people?

3. Give a brief description of the National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

4. Give a brief description of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

What effects did this event result in?

5. Describe the sit-ins of the 1960s. Were they as effective as

the students hoped they would be?

6. Give a short summary of the Birmingham Protest. Why did

they gain the sympathy of more states?

7. What was important about the March on Washington?

8. Who were the Black Panthers? What kind of significance did

they bring to the movement?

9. Give a short summary of the Selma to Montgomery March.

10. What was life post-Civil Rights movement?

After you are done reading the information go back to the first
paragraph and click on the following links:

11. Civil Rights Act

a. Give a brief summary of the history, struggle, and life
after the Civil Rights act.

b. Within the text click on the Martin Luther King Jr

describe the way in which he was involved in the
Civil Rights Movement.

12. Voting Rights Act

a. Give a brief summary of the history, struggle, and life
after the Voting Rights act.

13. Rosa Parks

a. Describe the way in which she was involved in the
Civil Rights Movement?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-yeakel/march-onwashington_b_3769211.html

Read the article above in order to answer the following:

14. Give your personal opinion of both of these big movements
(Civil Rights Movement and Womens Voting Rights). A

paragraph for each should be enough. Examine the roles that

each movement played into the freedom of minorities.