African American Women's Role In The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to right the wrongs of unfair treatment of
African Americans in the United States during a time known as the “Jim Crow Era”. This movement was held during the 1960’s and was successful in innumerable ways. African
Americans fought for the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted. This movement w was successful in combating job and housing discrimination, school integration, and equal justice for women. The highest achievement of success of the Civil Rights Movement is the fact that
African Americans now have all of the same rights that white Americans have.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 offered the promise of equal employment opportunity by forbidding job discrimination on the …show more content…
by Daisy Gaston
Bates president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and her husband L.C. Bates. The group came to be known as the Little Rock Nine. Many African American women played an important role in the civil rights movement.
During the 1960’s the roles of women were very submissive and paid minimum salaries.
African American women worked outside of their homes as maids, cooks,and housekeepers for white families. Many African American women experienced sexual harassment and discrimination that led to them joining forces with civil rights leaders in The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. African American women served as leaders of civil rights organizations at the risk of being killed. They taught illiterate people how to read, protested, made phone calls, wrote letters, and marched to end segregation. In fact, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White man which sparked the civil rights movement. Through these struggles to end segregation, African American women were successful in being able to receive long term benefits and rights. They also got jobs with better pay
African Americans in the United States during a time known as the “Jim Crow Era”. This movement was held during the 1960’s and was successful in innumerable ways. African
Americans fought for the same citizenship rights that whites took for granted. This movement w was successful in combating job and housing discrimination, school integration, and equal justice for women. The highest achievement of success of the Civil Rights Movement is the fact that
African Americans now have all of the same rights that white Americans have.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 offered the promise of equal employment opportunity by forbidding job discrimination on the …show more content…
by Daisy Gaston
Bates president of the Arkansas National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and her husband L.C. Bates. The group came to be known as the Little Rock Nine. Many African American women played an important role in the civil rights movement.
During the 1960’s the roles of women were very submissive and paid minimum salaries.
African American women worked outside of their homes as maids, cooks,and housekeepers for white families. Many African American women experienced sexual harassment and discrimination that led to them joining forces with civil rights leaders in The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference. African American women served as leaders of civil rights organizations at the risk of being killed. They taught illiterate people how to read, protested, made phone calls, wrote letters, and marched to end segregation. In fact, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White man which sparked the civil rights movement. Through these struggles to end segregation, African American women were successful in being able to receive long term benefits and rights. They also got jobs with better pay