Week 7 Reflection: The Freedom Of a Woman

               

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This picture shows a women going to vote while the husband is the one taking care of the kids and house.

              This week’s teaching on the Progressive era and Women’s Suffrage really informed me on what took place during the early 20^th century. Since times was changing and much progress was made to better American society, everyone that wasn’t equal wanted a push for equal rights. African Americans were still treated unfairly, although black men had the right to vote. Women wanted the right to vote, although America was changing, they were still being treated unfairly. Women wanted to changed laws that divided them from American men, they wanted better working conditions, more decisions when it came to marriage, less abuse from their husband, their right to control what to do with their pregnancy, and just to be treated fairly as a whole. All of these things were worth fighting for, the protests and strikes that women did to be heard help them change laws and get the things they were fighting for. Although many ended up in jail, they kept their movement going while still  inside their cell by doing hunger strikes. The right for women to vote really changed the way things were when it came to employment, child care, and other things that was a necessity to women.  

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This picture shows a white and black women fighting for the same thing but the bottom says "vote for white women," which helps show the discrimination of the black women. 

                After reading the PDFs, PowerPoint, and watching the clip from the move, I had noticed a major downfall within the NAWSA and other women movements. This downfall was the fact that African-American women were treated unfairly. African American women had joined these movements so they won't be be left behind but as I learned from history and in my own personal experience, they were left behind. It is bad enough that black women endured racism in a group that was suppose to uplift women as a whole. The movement of African American women seemed separated from the movement of American Women. America women  were fighting for Middle class to skill working women. They did not really care about the fight for black women suffrage. This made me realize how blacks were seen more as non-humane. Although this weeks learning showed the strength and determinism of women when fighting for their rights, it also disappoints me as a black female of how African Americans were overlooked because of the color of our skin. Knowing these facts, I tend to look at the women suffrage groups  as being a group of irony because of them being discriminatory within their fight for equal rights.