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    topics. One big event in history was the Equal Rights Amendment. A reasoning behind this amendment coming about was the lack of freedom that women as a whole did not have access to. Even still to this day women are lacking the pay and privileges of some men. Women deserve every right and privilege that men get in the workplace and in everyday life. Women unequal rights started way back in history. Even by the end of the new Constitution’s promised rights, women were unable to vote, own property

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    For years every citizen has struggled to receive equal rights whether it’d be African Americans, Women, LGBT citizens, or anyone of any different race or culture or religion. As time goes on in the United States no one will ever be equal that’s the issue the United States Government has, Whenever there is a group of people who are or who have different views or beliefs they are automatically wrong and they shouldn’t have the same rights as everyone else just because they are different. Do I believe

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    Since before the Bill of Rights were even completely formed, women were wanting the same rights as men. John Adams wife, Abigail, told him that she wanted womens rights in the amendments (Carr, 2015). The battle for women 's equal rights heightened during 1848-1920 when women, lead mostly by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wanted the right to vote (Woman’s Rights Movement, n.d.). When women finally got the right to vote, the whole women 's movement went down, but never fully went away

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    gave a speech to speak out against the way women were seen, and to change the way the male mind viewed women. In her speech “Equal Rights for Women,” Shirley Chisholm sought to educate men about women’s oppression and to inspire women to take a stand. The First case of feminism was when a woman named Mary Wollstonecraft published a book called A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792. This is when she

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    Minorities Affected by Civil and Equal Rights “The Times They Are A-Changin” is a lyrical poem written by Bob Dylan. “The Fear of Losing a Culture’ is an auto-biographical essay written by Richard Rodriguez. Both of these literary works have a shared theme of change and social conflict. However, both works were written at different times in history. There are similarities as well as differences between the two works. The shared theme of change for these two works is the change that is taking place

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    Equal Rights Amendment The Roaring Twenties brought along more than just a change in fashion and culture, it also introduced the strong fighting National Woman’s Party which introduced the Equal Rights Amendment to Congress in 1923.The Equal Rights Amendment had several purposes that seemed extremely important to women, however, a bit contradicting to 1920s society and American culture. In 1912 Alice Stokes Paul and Lucy Burns were appointed into the National American Woman Suffrage Association

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    factories while their husbands, brothers and fathers were fighting in the war. Women were tired of being treated differently and not having the same rights as men, so they wanted to conceive an amendment that would force people to treat them as equally as men and anyone else. This amendment was called the Equal Rights Amendment. On March 22, 1972, the equal rights amendment, E.R.A., was passed by the United States Senate and was sent to the states for ratification. Thirty states ratified the amendment but

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    The rights and freedoms that women in the United States enjoy today did not come without struggle, and currently there is nowhere in the world women are treated equally to men. Henceforth the 17th hundreds women have been trying to affirm their position in the fabric of America. Early public policies treated wives and mothers as wards of their husbands and women in general were not considered citizens under the Constitution of the United States, the founding document referred of “men created equal”

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    Centered on evidence, and reinforced by values and experience. Furthermore, her Equal Rights for Women speech was exceptionally influential. Her core dispute however, was on how the subject of sex segregation in the workforce, was predominant and unfair. Moreover, the reason why she put forth the argument in front of the House of Representatives, was to seek for change (freeman 23). As one of her core focuses regarding equal rights for women, she speaks of the victimization against

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    1. Women have fought to have equal rights since the beginning of Americans history. We have fought for equal rights in Congress and still currently are. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was proposed to Congress by Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party. This amendment would discourage any legal distinctions “on account of sex”. Women wanted to be provided full access to employment, education, and all the other opportunities of citizens. The campaign was a failure and the only law from the Amendment

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