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Activism, Reform, & Civil Disobedience in History!

• The Woman’s Suffrage Movement: in which women marched for equal rights, endured imprisonment, hunger strikes, and cruelty in order to gain the right to vote.
• The Civil Rights Movement: included sit-ins, freedom rides, and illegal marches in order to stop segregation in the U.S.
• Anti-War Movements: actions of these protests have been refusal to pay for war, refusal to enlist in the U.S. military, sit-ins, blockades, peace camps, and the refusal to allow military recruiters on high school and college campuses.
• The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Movement: one of the most significant riots in LGBTQ history was the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in September of 1969. It was the first time that American gays and lesbians took a stand against the police and a government-funded system that persecuted sexual minorities such as LGBTQ people.
• Community Service Organization: headed by Cesar Chavez, this organization was a Latino civil rights group, in which Latino-Americans were urged to vote and worker’s rights was a main issue.
• Planned Parenthood: created in 1916, Planned Parenthood provided and still provides reproductive, maternal, and child health services to American women and families. They also lobby for comprehensive sexual health education, pro-choice legislation, and access to affordable health care.
• Abolitionist Movement: the abolitionist movement in the North United States was led by William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Abolitionist movements in the South were led by reformers such as Harriet Beecher-Stowe and Frederick Douglass.
• Muckrakers: the term “muckraker” was coined during the Progressive Era as a way to describe investigative journalism and journalists who published only the truest of stories, consequently making many government-run agencies angry. Muckrakers and articles that they wrote helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, child labor laws, and helped stop Standard Oil’s monopoly over the oil industry.
• Many, if not all, nonviolent protests are inspired by the teachings and demonstrations of Mohandas Gandhi. One of Gandhi’s biggest fans was Martin Luther King, Jr., who used Gandhi’s teachings on nonviolent civil disobedience in leading the Civil Rights Movement.
• Civil disobedience in the United States has its origins in Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience: Resistance to Civil Government” (1849), in which Thoreau states that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences. People have a duty to avoid allowing themselves of enabling the government of making them the agents of injustice.

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Say No To Louisiana House Bill 645 (Formerly Hb587)

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Women’s History Facts!

•        During the 19^th century, most factory workers were single, young women. 

•        Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote. 

•        Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency in 1872 under the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

•  Because of her work with the Hull House, Jane Addams was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She was also recognized for her work in literature, philosophy, her leadership, and role as a suffragist.

•       Amelia Jenkins Bloomer helped make articles of clothing known as “bloomers” popular in the early 1850’s as a way of making women more free and active in the suffrage movement.

•      During World War II, women’s participation in the labor force dramatically increased.

•      During the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, which became one of the most popular and controversial books regarding the issue of slavery during that time.

•        In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. in Brooklyn, New York. It was shut down by the government ten days after it opened.

•      In 1918, birth control is legalized.

•   In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

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