History A level can be overwhelming - especially the USA civil rights module, but do not fret! This Table I created for my exam has literally EVERYTHING you need to know for the women civil rights in the period (which is the time frame for A level)
It is organised into columns designed especially...
TASK 2- Preparing for 30 mark questions:
See the attached powerpoints. Add facts in each of the columns . These facts should have dates.
FACT BANK Gilded Age 1900-1930 New Deal- Black Power- how did this affect the Very Late period
(not for 30 marker) civil rights group? (not included in the
(1933-45) 30 marker.)
The civil rights movement and Black
Power provoked other groups to
demand similar rights. The most
significant group to take up the banner
of ‘minority rights’ was American
women
Eg Women Challenges for women’s groups in
Vast social The expectations of the When the men came the 1960s/70s
changes caused Victorian era of the mid- back from WWI CONTINUITY = African- Not all women were convinced by
by to-late nineteenth century they wanted their American and Mexican- the women’s movement. Many
industrialisation, held that men and women jobs back and so the American women were women needed to be convinced that
immigration =, functioned in “separate dissatisfaction subject to discrimination. change was needed. In 1962, only
and urbanisation spheres” continues. 33% of women thought that they
fundamentally =Despite some of the September 1929 – Sharp fall were victims of inequality. In 1974,
altered life in “SEPARATE social change on in stock prices followed by a this figure rose to 66%.
the US. SPHERES”: The idea that closer inspection not slight recovery.
women could reside much had changed NEGATIVE IMPACT OF BLACK
outside a domestic setting for women. 23rd of October 1929 – panic POWER- EXTREME
Problems that was discouraged. starts again. APPROACH DISSUADED
this group faced However, protest The 19th amendment 29th October 1929 ‘black WOMEN FROM JOINING THE
in this period? challenged this view in 1920 increased Tuesday’ panic selling with MOVEMENT>
discord between
16.4 million transactions. Some women wanted nothing to do
women's groups and
It was a well-known Mid-November 1929 - $26 with civil rights. They objected to
divided aims.
social axiom in the 19th billion lost on the stock feminist slogans eg ‘ Don’t cook
Older women were
,Century that women disparaging about market. dinner tonight,starve a rat today’ and
should be at home. younger women who ‘End human sacrifice-don’t get
1860s sought sexual 1930-33 Great depression. married!’.
-"seen and not heard" gratification rather
-Patriarchal society – than political goals. 1930-1933 The Equal Employment Opportunity
dominated by Men -High rates of unemployment Commission had tackled several
-Women were regarded as Republican -Banks collapse priorities for women in the 1960s so
property presidents. -Harding, -The Government was under there was less inclination to join
-Women could not vote Coolidge, Hoover. scrutiny. groups.
-limited pool of job All three supported a
opportunities for women laissez-faire Some women criticised NOW for
approach. They were being too middle class. Women also
Barriers : reluctant to extend objected to the fact that NOW
1) Perception of women women's rights. continued to believe in marriage and
-domestic sphere was slow to support the rights of
2) lack of law promoting The measures are
lesbians.
rights for women reactionary and on
3) Entrenched social the back of
Finally, there was a glass ceiling -
stereotype campaigning. They
meaning after the 60's the women's
4) Lack of a mass movement don't want to
became more divided - radical and
and goal regulate or extend
alienated some people from it.
5) No voting rights until rights.
Women’s movement reached a plateau
1920. and NOW alienated supporters
Federal power does
"Don't cook dinner, kill a rat"
American Civil War. not provide enough
New feminism could have undermined
Women had taken on help for immigrant
the progress of the war.
some work eg as nurses women or African
but opportunities were American women.
Main barrier women were still dealing
limited. Discrimination –
with was the discrimination in the work
Post-civil war, many Immigrant women
place
women became nurses but and African American
the number of women women faced more
who were admitted to discrimination
,these posts was limited.
There was still a social
expectation that women
belonged in a domestic
sphere.
Industrialisation was a
bad development for
women
Industrialisation was
only really effecting
working class women
- middle and upper
class are still at home.
Why ? Because
society was
patriarchal.
It really is a preserve
for working class
women.
Industrialisation helped to
dissolve the separate
spheres idea; women
could do more than
domestic work. But there
was still a social
expectation that women
belonged in a domestic
sphere. //
Society was still
patriarchal. Women were
, regarded as property
• The Volstead Act
1919 was ignored-
alcohol was still
produced,
imported and
distributed.
(acknowledging wider
context)
Married women were often
barred from working
Great depression = 26
Attitudes of outside
states introduced laws
federal power? the home, either by policies which banned married 60's. is reactive to protest - Kennedy is a ROE VS WADE 1973=
of some employers or by women from working, young media savvy president. His Cancelled the anti-
state legislation. although when Louisiana approach to politics - recognised women abortion laws of 46
passed this law the could be valuable votes - that together
supreme court declared states.
with mounting protest wanting civil
-Laissez-faire approach it as unconstitutional rights meant that the government -became a huge
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