Women’s Rights

Women’s Rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Congressman Howard Smith (D-VA), Chairman of the Rules Committee and a staunch opponent of civil rights, had let the bill (H.R. 7152) go to the full House only under the threat of a discharge petition. During the floor debate, he offered an amendment that added sex to the four original categories, but only in Title VII (equal employment opportunity). Although Smith had supported the idea of an Equal Rights Amendment for women for nearly 20 years at that point, his amendment to the civil rights bill was likely intended to kill the measure. His plan did not have the desired effect, however, and the bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964.

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Women in World History

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For Black Suffragists, the Lens Was a Mighty Sword Photographs of generations of Black suffragists offer invaluable documents about their thwarted and central roles in the history of women’s rights.

How did we get from "The Civil War" to "The War of Northern Aggression?" The North won the war (whatever that means) but the South clearly won the propaganda war afterwards..

These are the results of the "Daughters of the Confederacy's" Education program. How is it that the President’s Chief of Staff John Kelly, a well educated man and former General, commented that the Civil War would not have happened if there had been "compromise." He further said that General Lee "was an honorable man" when clearly the General forsook his oath to defend the United States, and the Constitution, to traitorously fight "for his state." I implore you, how did the “Civil War” metamorphosize into “War of Northern Aggression?”

How Suffragists Used Cookbooks As A Recipe For Subversion

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In 1920, Native Women Sought the Vote. Here’s What’s Next. The 19th Amendment did not bring the right to vote to all Native women, but two experts in a conversation said it did usher in the possibility of change.

Diane Arbus is one of the 15 - A photographer whose portraits have compelled or repelled generations of viewers.

Middle School Resources

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June 16 to 19, 1963, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space. The United States wouldn't send a woman into space for another 20 years..

The Women of Seneca Falls - the First to Organize for Women's Rights..

Seneca Falls, 1848: Women Organize for Equality. The first organized gathering of women to demand their rights as women took place during two days in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. The manifesto produced by the women in Seneca Falls offered a blueprint for feminist organizing for decades to come.

National Women's Hall of Fame

Happy 100th Birthday! August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920. Only 27 years behind New Zealand!

Art & Music - People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974

New Zealand’s achievement gave ‘new hope and life to all women struggling for emancipation’. In most other democracies – notably Britain and the United States – women did not win the right to vote until after the First World War.

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