History 2301E Study Guide - Final Guide: Plessey, Desegregation, Montgomery Bus Boycott
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American history exam review: gender and race issues. Suffragist movement: want the vote increasing strength after the civil war and. Reconstruction when african american are given the vote: given the vote in 1920. Beecher sisters: against the suffragist movement, women"s role was a domestic one, american woman"s home, should influence society as mothers and teachers, believed women need more education. Second wave feminism, 1960s: rose out of kennedy"s commission on women, want more women working, more power in the workplace, etc, birth control and abortion become an issue, feminine mystique. Jim crow laws: mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in. Plessey vs. ferguson: separate but equal , local governments and people enforce segregation, not the federal government. Leader of the early civil rights movement. Wanted african americans to gain civil rights gradually. Make themselves important to society so that they will have to be given equal rights, essentialism: w. e. b.