African American Civil Rights Movement And Women's

There were many differences between the African American Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s Civil Rights Movement. African American’s did not have many rights at all, they were a minority; they were black. However, with the Women’s Suffrage Movement, they were more likely white, middle or upper-class women fighting for the same rights that white, American men had. The Women’s Civil Rights Movement began with the suffrage movement, which was a movement for women to gain the right to vote, which happened in August of 1920. After gaining the right to vote, women were silent for forty years while working in factories during World War II. After war, women went back home to raise their children and cook dinner for their families. The Civil