Northlake College American Womens Rights Movement Discussion
Description
Rationale: No idea is more fundamental to the American sense of self than freedom. To the United States, freedom and liberty are interchangeable and seemingly universal. However, that is misleading. Freedom is not fixed or alone definition; rather, it is an ideal as well as a reality. It also defines American identity as a collective and as individual groups within the country.
Question: Evaluate the American women’s rights movement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. What was the extent to which the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote, marked a turning point in the United States women’s history? How have subsequent efforts in the last fifty years advanced the movement? Explain your argument.
Document Options:
Proceedings of the Trial of Susan B. Anthony (1873)
https://www.infoplease.com/us/speeches-primary-documents/proceedings-trial-susan-b-anthony-6
Mueller v. Oregon (1908)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/208us412
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxix
Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (1920)
A Word to the Wives (1955)
https://wwnorton.com/common/mplay/6.11/?p=/college/history/foner4/mp4/&f=ch24_video_4&ft=mp4&a=0
Equal Pay Act of 1963
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/epa.cfm
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/381/479
National Organization of Women Statement of Purpose (1966)
http://now.org/about/history/statement-of-purpose/
Shirley Chisholm, Equal Rights for Women (1969)
https://www.infoplease.com/history/equal-rights-women/equal-rights-women
Roe v. Wade (1973)
https://d1lexza0zk46za.cloudfront.net/history/am-docs/roe-v-wade.pdf
Hillary Clinton, Women’s Rights are Human Rights (1995)
https://www.infoplease.com/us/speeches-primary-documents/womens-rights-are-human-rights
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (2012)
https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_we_should_all_be_feminists
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on Equality, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-3GPOFatqE
Women’s March (2017)
https://www.womensmarch.com/global/
Angela Davis, The Women’s March on Washington (2017)
A Conversation with Betty Freidan
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3675
Title IX
you have to use any 2 of these documents that are provided in order to answer the question.
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