Civil+Rights

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 Jim Crow Jim Crow were a set of laws that seperated the blacks and the whites in public places. They rules were set primarily in the south but not exclusively. The rules restricted blacks from using the white bathrooms, restaurants, and any other place that it would be seen that blacks and whitets were mixing. The segregation was de jure meaning that it was inacted though a fixed set of laws. The laws may differ slightly from town to town but the single mindset of the southern american white male was that blacks could in no case come near the whites. However not all whites enacted the ideals of Jim Crow. Those that didnt were heavily scrutinized and many of the whites within the town would turn against them. The blacks were thought to be unclean and filthy and in all cases inferior to the white american, even though the adopted slogan was "seperate but equal." Quickly the blacks became tired of the treatment that they recieved, and started forming groups. These early groups eventually gave rise to what we know today as the Civil Rights Movement.


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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. W.E.B. Du Bois [|David Levering Lewis], a [|biographer], wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of [|twentieth-century] [|racism] — [|scholarship], [|propaganda], [|integration], national [|self-determination], [|human rights], cultural and [|economic] [|separatism], [|politics], international [|communism], [|expatriation], [|third world] [|solidarity]."[|[3] His lifetime efforts for the African American community were focused on confronting the racism of the day directly and demanding that equal rights be granted immediately. [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/WEB_Du_Bois.jpg width="245" height="315" align="left" caption="external image WEB_Du_Bois.jpg"]][[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk_title_page.jpg width="215" height="326" align="right" caption="external image The_Souls_of_Black_Folk_title_page.jpg"]]
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 * William Edward Burghardt Du Bois** (([|February 23], [|1868] – [|August 27], [|1963]) was an [|American] [|civil rights activist], [|public intellectual], [|Pan-Africanist], [|sociologist], [|educator], [|historian], [|writer], [|editor], [|poet], and [|scholar]. He became a [|naturalized] [|citizen] of [|Ghana] in 1963 at the age of 95.[|[2]]



 Temperance Movement From the beginning of the 20th century, until the early twenties, organizations made the issue of prohibition of alcohol a national issue. This effort came with the passage of the eighteenth amendment banning the sale, or consumption of alcohol anywhere in the US. In order to get their point across prohibitionists needed to prove the evils which were presented by alcohol. Groups like the American Medical Association, along with other members of the educated public, joined forces in order to fight the evils which alcohol presented. These people, along with businessmen, tried to explain how alcohol violated the theories of proper social life. Other groups tried to show how alcohol would ruin the American way of life. Women were the major force behind the temperance movement. The reason for this was because they were afraid of the abuse, disease, and poverty which was brought on by alcohol. Women were looking to preserve the purity of the American family, and therefore were very involved in influencing legislation. But the Temperance movement was a total disaster. "Bootleggers" brought alcohol over from Canada, and many people became quit e proficient in developing home- made brews. However, it was a process which helped shape America. For the first time women became very active in influencing legislation, and the democratic process.
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 * "Wine, wife, and song" printed 1873 ||
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"Birth of a Nation" A very influencial film that was very popular when it was made in 1915. The general public thought that is was very realistic. People were amazed because the scenes were well produced. The director of this film is D.W Griffith. The film was set during and after the Civil War and was released on February 8, 1915. This film introduces two juxtaposed families the Northern Stonemans, consisting of abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman. The Stonemans boy meets this girl and he falls in love with her. Then when the war starts all the members that are involved get geared up and go. This film is also about the blacks and whites how they were very disrespectful to each other. For example, the white males would would scare all the blacks away by pretending to be scarecrows. This film gave a false image of blacks living in the south, also made people in the north scared.



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