Women's Rights In Washington

September 7th 1968, a large protest was held at the Miss America Pageant. 150 women protested against the exploitation of women. This was one of the first protest of the Second Wave Feminism. The protesters mission was equality for women. This lead to future protest for equality for women of all

More than 600 of these marches took place all over the world, the largest being at the nation’s capitol in Washington D.C.. Those who participated did so for a multitude of reasons. Marching for not just equal rights for women, but for equal rights for the LGTBQIA+ community, for Black Lives Matter, for raising awareness about climate change, and much, much more. The hashtag Why I March has garnered up millions of Instagram posts, Tweets, Facebook updates, and articles, all from men and women standing up for their beliefs. The coordinators of the Women’s March on Washington put together a document outlining their guidelines and principles, and illustrate modern day feminism very well. They go over the basic principles that human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. It also demonstrates intersectionalism, calling for an end to police brutality, reformations for the criminal justice system, an end to human trafficking, rights for immigrants and refugees, among many others. Just as the first women’s convention in American history drew up a doctrine, the guiding vision and definition of principles of the Women’s March is eerily similar to the Declaration of Sentiments and Grievances written 169 years

Women’s rights in America in late 1800’s women’s right to vote women in medicine and the equal rights for women are the 3 main points that were big in the 1800’s.

On this day, more than 200,000 black and white Americans gathered in Washington, D.C. and intended to dramatize the rights of black Americans to political and economic equality. This event focused on employment discrimination, civil rights abuses against African Americans, Latinos, and other minority groups, and support for the Civil Rights Act that the Kennedy Administration was attempting to pass through Congress. At the Washington Monument, they carried hundreds of signs that were made specifically for this event.

President Donald Trump was elected and thousands of women were expected to attend one of the largest demonstrations in world history. The woman’s march in Washington dc quickly increased and almost 400 women were involved in this act. This act

On January 21, 2017, an estimated 500,000 Americans marched on the National Mall, continuing a longstanding tradition of protest on this public space. On this particular day, protesters sought to send a message to President Donald Trump regarding women’s rights. Known as the Women’s March, this event is only one of the more recent examples of large-scale protest and dissent on the National Mall. Throughout American history, protest movements have often made their way to Washington, D.C., the capital city and political center of the United States. Although the National Mall was not necessarily designed in a way that fosters protest, it quickly became the foremost venue for American demonstration. As AIDS activist Cleve Jones once stated, “the

With over five million women, men and children united in all seven continents, the Women’s March was by far the largest and most peaceful protest in history. Washington, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Sydney and Paris are only a few out of the many cities world-wide that all groups of ages, genders, races and religions merged together on January 21st, 2017 to send a clear message to the brand-new government of the United States. Accumulating no arrest, the protesters conveyed that all rights are women’s rights, making the demonstration a successful act of civil disobedience. Although the Women’s March has yet to force the Congress to reform civil policy, the protest, along with all peaceful resistances, continue to positively impact free societies.

On January 21, 2017, more than 2 million people protested in the Women’s March when president Donald J. Trump was elected (Przybyla and Schouten). Many marching for the same equals that they had been fighting for more than 100 years ago.

On Saturday, January 21, 2017 history was made in the United States for having the biggest inaugural protest ever. There were an abundance of Women’s March all over the country but the one on Washington being the main one. However, with any big move of progress there is always two different opinions, one agreeing and the other one disagreeing; so one could look at this as a glass half full or empty situation, except that it is not. In addition, intellectual people know that the Women’s March was nowhere near being an act of civil disobedience but instead, a peaceful protest.

Primarily, Mexican-Americans went on strike for better plumbing and sanitation. Throughout the process, many women protesters were being harassed by strikebreakers and injured. As the document explains, “Local police arrested and harassed the women protesters, sometimes jailing children

As described in Ladies Home journal by Jane Addams, it notes, “ Her basement will not be dry, her stairway will not be fireproof… She cannot even secure untainted meat for her household… unless the city has been inspected by city official…” No doubt, this demonstrates that women during the 19th century didn’t have the rights they needed to be equal, and weren’t treated well which can cause conflict and Civil Unrest between the U.S. and their Women. Furthermore, the least amount of the donated money will go to Women’s Suffrage since Women need to be treated equally and be able to vote, otherwise there would be a lot of conflict and Civil

The women’s march was not organized to unseat Mr. Trump as president of the United States. The purpose of the inevitable protest was to serve as a wake up call for the president to make his decisions henceforth based on evidence, reports and studies, but not mere sentiments. The rhetoric during the campaign activated the panic button in those protesters. Now that Trump is president, his success is our success as a nation (economy, immigration, terrorism). Nonviolent protests (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) organized to draw attention to our pains and struggles strengthen our democracy. Let’s pray for the new president for wisdom to lead this great nation and give him a chance.

The members of the Congressional Union, later known as the National Women's Party, picketed the White House for women's right to vote and many of them were arrested.

Compare the results of the violent protests during President Trump’s inauguration and the peaceful Women’s March the following

Two years after the Seneca Falls convention, the very first National Women’s Rights Convention was called to order in Brinley Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 23–24, 1850. Many famous women rights advocates attended the convention including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. Over a thousand people attended the convention making Brinley Hall overflow with people. The speakers addressed many issues on women’s equality such as higher education, the right to own property, and to vote. Many newspapers wrote reviews about the conventions some positive and some negative, but no matter what side they were committed to they helped shine a light on the issues of women’s equality and gained many supporters (“mass movements”).