How Did Rosa Parks Follow The Feminist Movement?

Rosa Parks was a black seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested for being courageous in 1955. While fed up with white racism; she did not give up her bus seat to a white man. This preceded to the Montgomery bus boycott against the city’s bus system which Martin Luther King Jr. led. Ida B. Wells was the first African American to file a suit against discrimination after she was denied a seat on a railroad car for being black. She also founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909 (???).
During World War II, nearly 200,000 women joined the Women’s Army Corps or WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). Meanwhile, over 6 million entered the workforce. Many women were eager to get away from their traditional roles of cooking, cleaning, parenting, and nurturing.
However, after the war, most women turned their
Most women felt trapped and wanted an out. Friedman transformed the feminist movement, which also coincided with the sexual revolution. She used her efforts to legalize abortion. In 1960 the birth-control pill was approved by the FDA. Friedan was also an advocate for NOW (National Organization for Women). By 1976 over half of the married women were employed outside of the home. Meanwhile, Phyllis Schlafly, a right-wing Republican activist became a motivational force behind a growing anti-feminist movement. She believed that feminists were “anti-family, anti-children, and pro-abortion”. She worked against the equal-rights amendment for women and civil rights protection for gays. She dismissed feminists as a “bunch of bitter women seeking a constitutional cure for their personal problems”. (1101). She also claimed that they’re determined to “replace the image of woman as virtue and mother with the image of prostitute, swinger, and lesbian”