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Not only did white women face gender inequality, black women (and other women of different nationalities) did as well but to a great extent. Black women in America faced both gender and racial discrimination to unimaginable limits.

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“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening” (Kidd 289).

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"'He said, (N word), you say you're sorry.' When I didn't, he came at me. He hit me till the policeman said that was enough'" (Kidd 46).

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Lily was a white young girl who lived with a both verbally and physically abusive father, T. Ray who would hit and strike her on a daily basis. Lily eventually ran away from her home on a peach farm to seek a job and temporary home in Tiburon, South Carolina. "Instead I was at Walden Pond. Day one of my new life, I said to myself. That's what this is" (Kidd 57).

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Rosaleen was a black woman who worked as a slave for Lily and T. Ray in their home. Above all, she faced discrimination unlike any other. "By then, Rosaleen lay sprawled on the ground, pinned, twisting her fingers around clumps of grass. Blood ran from a cut beneath her eye" (Kidd 33).

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August, May, and June, were black women who also faced their struggles, but not just by being women. They have ultimately persevered through their challenges together by making their own bee keeping business in which they thrived. In the end, they know their worth and keep a generous outlook on life and nature. August exclaims, "You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do" (Kidd 288).

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During the era of the 1960's, women began entering the workforce. This change sparked controversy and issues amongst women due to the vastly different pay gap compared to that of men and sexual harrassment women underwent while working.

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July 13th, 1848, marks the beginning of the Women’s Rights Movement. On this day, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was invited to a tea in upstate New York, alongside four female friends. During this tea, these women planned out the infamous Seneca Falls convention which would take place just two days later on July 15, 1848.
#whatsthetea

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Using the Declaration of Independence as frame work, the women of the Seneca Falls convention drafted the Declaration of Sentiments. The Declaration campaigned for women’s rights by highlighting the areas of society where women were treated unjustly and listing 18 grievances of inequality, just like the Declaration of Independence.

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Photo Credit: "Quotes on Women's Rights"

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This quotes comes directly from the Declaration of Sentiments and is derived from the familiar, Declaration of Independence, which states that, “all men are created equal.”

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After Seneca Falls, a series of conventions took place throughout the country and were held regularly until the start of the Civil War. The 19th century, Women’s Rights Movement, focused on addressing the issues brought up at the Seneca Falls Convention, and after 72 years women’s suffrage was finally won.

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A hanging paper that displayed the success of women voting and the states in which rights had been granted in 1914.

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July 15, 1848
Seneca Falls was the first women’s rights convention organized by women. It was held in New York and 300 people attended. At the convention, a Declaration of Sentiment was signed by sixty-eight women and 32 men. The Declaration signed at Seneca Falls sparked decades of activism that eventually lead to women’s suffrage.

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Photo Credit: "Margaret Sanger NYC Sites, Day 1 Part 1, and a 100 Year Anniversary"

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1916
Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. Her clinic was deemed illegal under the “Comstock Laws” since it forbid any types of contraceptives. She later founded the American Birth Control League.

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1917
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress from the State of Montana. She was a longtime activist with the National Woman Suffrage Association.

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Photo Credit: "West Virginia secretary of State Mac Warner to host ceremony on Women's Equality Day, Centennial of 19th amendment"

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1920
Ratification of the 19th Amendment declared “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”. This amendment is nicknamed “The Susan B. Anthony Amendment”.

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1964
The Civil rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson. It bans employment discrimination based on race, religion, national origin or sex.

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Betty Friedan was featured in the New York Times Magazine in 1985, and made arguments about how to get the feminist movement going again. The article voiced Friedan’s concerns over the future of the movement and outlines 10 things that should be done to keep the movement alive.
#keepthemovementalive

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Photo Credit: "For Friedan, a Life on the Run" 

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In 1985, Betty Friedan voiced her opinion on the fate of the movement if people continued to lose focus of the big picture.
#femalevoices

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Photo Credit: "For Friedan, a Life on the Run"

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Friedan believed that many feminist leaders were drifting away from the important issues, and that young people were not being brought into the movement, thus causing it to lose momentum.
#womenunite

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Photo Credit: "Moving Backwards on the Long Road to Gender Equality"

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The gender pay gap provides a clear example that the inequality between men and women is still present today.
#inequality

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Photo Credit: "7 Suffrage Men and the Importance of Allies"

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Friedan argues that women must unite with men to allow for more political candidates to reach power that will fight for expanding women and minority rights.
#mensupportequality

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Photo Credit: "Understanding His Philosophies and the Allegory of the Cave"

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Plato, a Greek philosopher, wrote in his classic Republic, that women possess “natural capacities” that are equal to men for defending and governing ancient Greece.

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Edited by Shasta Gaughen, Women’s Rights: Contemporary Issues is a book containing 21 different articles on the issues of women’s rights, women in the workplace, medical rights, and the general status of women around the world.

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Elizabeth Stanton was a well educated lecturer and a main philosopher in the 20th century feminist movement. Elizabeth and her friend Lucretia Mott held the first Seneca Falls Convention in New York.

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Photo Credit: "Why We Can't Stop Talking About Betty Friedan"

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Betty Friedan broke ground with her book the Feminine Mystique. The book explored the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles. She even advocated for an increased role for women in the political process.
#girlboss

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Susan B Anothony is one of the most well known leaders in the Women’s sufferage movement. She famously was arrested for voting because of he gender and was convicted for voting illegally. She worked alongside other notable figures such as Elizabeth Candy Stanton.