{"id":1632,"date":"2021-07-16T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/?post_type=chapter&p=1632"},"modified":"2022-08-22T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T01:19:38","slug":"introduction-to-movements-for-women-and-african-americans","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/chapter\/introduction-to-movements-for-women-and-african-americans\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Movements for Women and African Americans","rendered":"Introduction to Movements for Women and African Americans"},"content":{"raw":"

What you'll learn to do: describe how the progressive movement influenced the struggle for women's rights and the early civil rights movement<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_6999\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"394\"]\"A<\/a> Figure 1.<\/strong> Suffragists protesting against President Woodrow Wilson's opposition to women's suffrage.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe Progressive commitment to promoting democracy and social justice created an environment within which the movements for women\u2019s and African American rights grew and flourished. Emergent leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul spread the cause of women's suffrage, drawing in other activists and making the case for a constitutional amendment ensuring a woman\u2019s right to vote. African Americans\u2014guided by leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois\u2014strove for civil rights and economic opportunity, although their philosophies and strategies differed significantly. In the women\u2019s and civil rights movements alike, activists both advanced their own causes and paved the way for later efforts aimed at expanding equal opportunity and citizenship.","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: describe how the progressive movement influenced the struggle for women’s rights and the early civil rights movement<\/h2>\n
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Figure 1.<\/strong> Suffragists protesting against President Woodrow Wilson’s opposition to women’s suffrage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Progressive commitment to promoting democracy and social justice created an environment within which the movements for women\u2019s and African American rights grew and flourished. Emergent leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul spread the cause of women’s suffrage, drawing in other activists and making the case for a constitutional amendment ensuring a woman\u2019s right to vote. African Americans\u2014guided by leaders such as Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois\u2014strove for civil rights and economic opportunity, although their philosophies and strategies differed significantly. In the women\u2019s and civil rights movements alike, activists both advanced their own causes and paved the way for later efforts aimed at expanding equal opportunity and citizenship.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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