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Title: Women and African Americans


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Women and African Americans
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Women
  • By the mid 19th century, middle and upper class
    women could afford to stay home.
  • Poor women had to work for wages outside of their
    home
  • What jobs did they do?

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Women
  • Farm Women did not change
  • Helped on the farm and with livestock as well as
    house work

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Domestic Workers
  • Cleaned houses
  • Tended to be black women
  • Cooks
  • Laundresses, scrub, maids

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Women
  • Industry
  • Factories gave women new options of employment
  • 1 in 5 women held jobs
  • Worked the lower skilled jobs, were paid ½ of
    what men made
  • Began to fill secretary, school, and store
    positions

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Women In Industry
  • Issues
  • - Work conditions
  • low wages
  • long hours

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
  • Burned down in 1911
  • Women were locked in to keep working
  • 146 died

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Women Reform
  • All women colleges began to open
  • Wellesley, Vassar
  • Educated Women joined the reform

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Three Part Strategy
  • 1) Tried to convince states to grant women the
    right to vote
  • Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho
  • 2)Pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment
  • -Anthony tried to vote in 10 states
  • 3) Pushed for National constitutional amendment

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19th Amendment
  • 1920
  • Granted women suffrage nationally

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African American Rights
  • Roosevelt supported individuals not all civil
    rights

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Booker T. Washington
  • Head of an All Black Vocational Training School
  • Respected by Prominent Whites
  • Blamed black poverty on the black community
    urged to accept discrimination
  • Change yourself not others

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Booker T. Washington
  • Gradualism
  • - Social and Political equality should be long
    term goals
  • Encouraged immediate economic advancement through
    vocational training and hiring of black workers
    by white industrialists

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W.E.B. Dubois
  • Criticized Washington
  • Dubois called for immediate economic and social
    equality through academic education, political
    action, and protest
  • Helped establish NAACP in 1909
  • Worked for civil rights
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