Women’s Suffrage Movement: Many women wanted more rights including the right to vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890 to help get the right to vote for women Carrie Chapman Catt fought for women’s suffrage in many western states including Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah Catt becomes president of NAWSA in 1900 and helps mobilize about 1 million volunteers to work for women’s right to vote A rival group called the National Women’s Party (NWP) was founded by Alice Paul in 1913 and aimed to make the women’s suffrage movement more public with protests, parades, and public demonstrations including hunger strikes Both groups efforts will pay off when the 19th amendment is passed in 1920 and granted all women in the United States the right to vote African Americans fight for change: After slavery ended there was still a lot of problems for African Americans including discrimination Booker T. Washington tried to help improve conditions through education. He was a founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Ida B. Wells was more outspoken and wrote many articles drawing attention to the violent killings in the south of black men W.E.B. Dubois took a more hands approach to fighting discrimination and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) NAACP worked to end discrimination and bring down the oppressive Jim Crow Laws and end segregation in the South Questions about Women and African Americans:
Women’s Suffrage Movement: Many women wanted more rights including the right to vote Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony found the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890 to help get the right to vote for women Carrie Chapman Catt fought for women’s suffrage in many western states including Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah Catt becomes president of NAWSA in 1900 and helps mobilize about 1 million volunteers to work for women’s right to vote A rival group called the National Women’s Party (NWP) was founded by Alice Paul in 1913 and aimed to make the women’s suffrage movement more public with protests, parades, and public demonstrations including hunger strikes Both groups efforts will pay off when the 19th amendment is passed in 1920 and granted all women in the United States the right to vote African Americans fight for change: After slavery ended there was still a lot of problems for African Americans including discrimination Booker T. Washington tried to help improve conditions through education. He was a founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Ida B. Wells was more outspoken and wrote many articles drawing attention to the violent killings in the south of black men W.E.B. Dubois took a more hands approach to fighting discrimination and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) NAACP worked to end discrimination and bring down the oppressive Jim Crow Laws and end segregation in the South Questions about Women and African Americans:
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