Racial Equality and Gender Equality in the Women’s Rights Movement
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2017-08-08
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Throughout history, there have always been particular groups that have been suppressed, for instance women and blacks. Women’s rights activists and abolitionists started off their battle for suffrage together, however, African Americans were enfranchised five decades before women were. This raises the question of how the struggles for racial equality and gender equality have interfered with each other within the Women’s Rights Movement. This thesis is intended to find out how African American activists and Women’s rights activists have influenced one another while looking at crucial events throughout their history like the Seneca Falls Convention and the Emancipation Proclamation. Therefore, it starts in 1848 with the first women’s rights convention in the United States and concludes around 1919, with the enfranchisement of women. Findings show that their relationship has not been rather stable throughout history and that they have hurt one another multiple times, however when they were starting to work together, they did accomplish some incredible achievements
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