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    to vote. In order to participate in the state Democratic Party‚ Fannie Lou Hamer helped start Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and was elected Vice-Chair of this party. By pursuing rights for black people‚ Hamer devoted her whole life‚ and she is remembered by the world. As an American voting rights activist‚ Fannie Lou Hamer is remarkable‚ and her goal‚ method‚ and obstacles in Student Nonviolent Coordinating

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    The antislavery movement was led by abolitionists of both races and genders who hoped to emancipate all slaves and end racial discrimination in the United States. Such a task required these individuals to work together and employ different methods for spreading their ideas and reaching the people. As many abolitionists became disappointed with the progress of the movement‚ many began to change their methods and policies‚ which caused a split in the abolitionist movement. The writings of both white

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    My speech on why I support and defend my document for human rights! Good morning/afternoon classmates‚ Ahead of time I would like to let you know that my book is The Civil Rights Movement People Who Changed America By:Kevin Supples. This book’s genre is Expository. It is a National Geographic book. It is about very important leaders and what they accomplished and how they accomplished and overcame their goals. I defend this document because I know it is it is truthful. I know it is truthful because

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    Contributions to Psychology Mamie Phipps Clark played an important role in the civil right movement‚ as her work with her husband demonstrated that concept of "separate but equal" provided a far from equal education for black youth. Her investigations into self-concept among minorities inspired further research on the subject and opened up new areas of research within the field of developmental psychology. Unfortunately‚ her important contributions have often been overlooked in the

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    Women’s Rights Movement Imagine having only one purpose in life: to serve men. Your place was to cook‚ clean‚ bear children‚ and look pretty. You had no right to vote or to live your own life in the way you wanted to. This is what women have faced for countless years leading up to the Women’s Rights Movement. Even though many women took on tremendous workloads and dangerous risks during the American Revolution‚ they still were not granted freedom. It was in early July‚ 1848 when action is finally

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    was how some women in the early twentieth century felt: cheated‚ vexed‚ and marginalized. From these women came the First Wave Feminists‚ a group of suffragettes who utilized protests‚ pamphlets‚ and petitions to obtain the rights they deserved. One suffragette‚ Alice Paul‚ was often at the head of these movements. Paul paraded‚ picketed‚ and protested to secure equal rights for American women. The future activist

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    Reform movements started in the 19th century and early 20th century to address specific problems. The women’s rights movement‚ the temperance movement and the movement to end child labor would be a part of it. All of these movements became successful by hard work. The women’s rights movement is when women fought for their rights and entitlements. The temperance movement is a social movement that prohibited the use of alcoholic beverages. The movement to end child labor was made to end child labor

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    Eugenics‚ Right or Wrong? The Eugenics movement started in the late 19th century and eventually became an ideal adopted in countries such as Germany and the United States. The motivation behind this motion was based upon the preservation of sanity within society. Hence‚ the Eugenics movement was centralized around sterilizing people who exhibited “mental illness‚ mental retardation or epilepsy.” Many scientists and scholars tried to justify the morality of this conceptualization by stating that “through

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    The women’s rights movement in the mid 1800s was revolutionary because so many people stood up for women’s rights and that changed the way life was. This movement was created to give more rights the women. Conventions were held to rally up supporters for the women’s rights movement causing one the largest women want in US history. These conventions held idea of what rights women should have and that is what create the Declaration of Sediments which was similar to the Declaration of Independence in

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    Tonecia Lee AP US History 5th Period Unit 2 Essay Exam October 10‚ 2012 The status of women‚ African Americans‚ and Native Americans did not change after winning the American Revolution. Although after the American Revolution winning the status of women didn’t change‚ because of what they had stood up for. The status of women did not change‚ because of what each Americans group had done to make it not change after the winning of the American Revolution. The African American women had been

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