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Even though our country states that "all men are created equally" it hasn't always been that way. American-Indian's have been discriminated against since Europeans took their land and their rights away. American-Indian's have been fighting for their rights for many years.

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People with disabilities have been treated unfairly for many years. They were separated from other people, ignored, or even forgotten. Luckily, advocacy groups formed and have been fighting for their rights for many years. There has been a lot of progress with how people with disabilities are treated and viewed.

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Map of North America in the 19th century.

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California, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming were once part of Mexico. In the 19th century the United States and Mexico went to war and the US conquered that part of Mexico. Many Mexican-Americans dealt with racism for many years after the land was taken from them.

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In May of 1919, the 19th amendment was approved by Congress. Even though it was approved, it took a year for it to become law. Women had been fighting for this since the 1800s through the creation of various advocacy groups.

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After Japan bombed the United States, during World War II , many Japanese-Americans faced discrimination in the United States. Since they "looked like the enemy" many people, including the Supreme Court, thought it was correct to force them out of their homes and place them in internment camps. The Supreme Court stated that discrimination was unconstitutional unless war broke out. The rights of people who look like the enemy are still unclear today.

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After the civil war ended in 1865 women were ready to get back to work for suffrage.

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People with disabilities have been mistreated

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On June 4, 1919 American women moved a giant step closer to winning the vote. The senate voted in favor the proposed the nineteenth amendment. Giving women the right to vote.

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The pressure to give up more land did not end with this treaty. The US government insisted that non-Indian settlers should have the land for farming.

The Wolf River flows through the Menominee reservation.

In 1836, the Menominee were forced

to give up the eastern half of their remaining territory. In 1848, the year Wisconsin became a state, they were forced to give up the remaining western half. When Wisconsin became a state, the president of the United Sates ordered the Menominee to leave their homes and move to a small reservation in the Crow Wing River area of Minnesota.

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The trails of tears were when the American Indians got pushed nine states and lost many members of their tribe.

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Mexican farmers during the Mexican revolution.

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Farmers in Mexico during the Mexican revolution got no land and lived in poverty.

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Mexican farmers in the Mexican revolution

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The Mexican Americans did not get any land and lived in poverty for almost there whole life

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These women worked together to fight for better work and won. Their story is important in the

history of labor rights. It also shows Asian American women working for their community.

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American Indians got us citizen ship in the Snyder act. They were still discriminating against them. They did still not like them.

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In 1917 they made a constitution and fighting came to a end.

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In the past women suffered a lot. They used to be controlled by their fathers and their husbands. They only had a few more rights then slaves which wasn’t fair.

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In the 1800s, there were many reform group members wanted to change the society for the better. And a lot of woman wanted to be involved and they wanted to be taking seriously while they did so.

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in September 1918 he addressed the Senate in favor of votes for women. He appealed to patriotic arguments for suffrage when he asked representatives, "We have made partners of the women in this war; shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?"

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Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone was born on a farm in Massachusetts in 1818. Stone was determined to go to college but her parents didn’t approve. Stone started teaching at 16. Then when she saved up enough money she was able to go to college nine years later.

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The 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

through Washington, DC completely changed the way protests were viewed and

carried out by the American public.

Thousands of women took to the streets to

fight for their right to vote.

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Women were not allowed to practice medicine or law. And they couldn’t go to work. All they did were stay home and cook and clean.

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The third great wave in Mexican immigration is taking place right now.

Mexican immigrants have a more central place in American cultural life than ever before. They

have an important role to play in its future, too.

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Lucy Stone

Lucy Stone was a teacher starting at the age of 16. Nine years later after saving her money she was able to go to Oberlin College. Stone was asked to write a speech for her graduation. She then learned that a man would be reading it instead of her. Once she found out she immediately refused to write the speech.

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Their life’s were once easy. Everything fell into place. Corn grew, animals were plentiful, and there was water to drink. But one day tragedy struck. Strange men started to arrive. They called themselves Spanish. They came looking for riches, land, and slaves. They stole from the Indians enslaved them and took their land. Some escaped and came to America seeking a fresh start. And here they are now.

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The disability rights are so they are treated the same because their parents might think. That they will be made fun of and get set off to special schools. They don’t think they can do as much as everybody else.

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In the book votes of women it says “Eight years later, in 1848, Lacena Mott, Elizabeth Cady Seanson, and three other women organized a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. They wrote a document that listed their beliefs about women's rights. It was called the "Declaration of Sentiments,".

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Korematsu followed the same arguments used a year earlier by

a man of Japanese ancestry who had refused to obey a curfew.

The Court had upheld the curfew. Still, Korematsu argued the

new order was unconstitutional because it discriminated against

people based on their race.

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American soldiers in the Philippines in 1945 

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Navajo nation

In 1942, a man named Philip Johnston had an idea to solve the problem that the enemy often decoded the codes in World War 2. His idea was to create a code based on the Navajo language.

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Emily Eaton was born with a condition called cerebral palsy. She couldn’t talk with people or control her movements. She used a wheelchair to help her travel. She wanted to be part of a normal school like other kids. But some people wanted Emily to go to a special school for disabled children. But her family decided to fight. The fight took her to the highest court in the country, the Supreme Court.

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In the book votes for women it says "To get the word male out of the Constitution cost the women of the country years of campaigning. It was a continuous, seemingly endless chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the last links of that chain were not born when it began. Old suffragists who forged the first links were dead when it ended, "

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The disability people are often made made fun of. And bullied because of how they are.

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The few immigrants that made it past border patrol didn’t have many rights. Even though they weren’t from Africa we still treated them like African Americans and were segregated.

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The Ho-Chunk people have always had their own form of governing themselves. But in 1934, the US government passed a law that allowed tribes on reservations to create their own constitutional governments, more like that of the

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Russel Means

Russel Means was an Oglala Lakota American Indian who became the National head of the American Indian Movement. For the next 40 years, Mean was at the forefront of the American Indian rights movement.

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In 1919, lawmakers voted on the amendment again. This time it passed. Then the

amendment was sent to the states to be approved. On August 18, 1920, the 19th

Amendment finally became law.

A few months later there was an election. More than 8 million women across the U.S. voted

for the first time.

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The Declaration on Social Progress and Development (1969) affirms the fundamental freedoms and principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and emphasize the need to protect the rights and welfare of persons with disabilities.

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Even before the end of the U.S. -Mexican p

War 1848, Mexican American had to fight to secure their civil rights in the United States. Today, thanks to strong leaders and committed activists.

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Life for American-Indians was very hard. They were very poor and didn’t have a lot of rights. A lot of there land was stolen by Americans.

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In 1918, Edna Purtell was a teenager working as a filling clerk in Connecticut. She took a week vacation to go to Washington D.C., But Purtell was not going sightseeing. She was suffragist. Purtell and hundreds of other suffragists were marching in a parade. They were angry that the Senate had gone on a vacation without voting on the women suffrage amendment.

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The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (2006) is adopted as an international treaty to promote, protect and ensure all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all persons with disabilities.

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Juan cortina was a leader and he vowed to protect Mexican Americans from white settlers.

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In the past people with disabilities were not treated well. Children with disabilities were not well cared for.

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Even before the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, Mexican Americans had to fight to secure their civil rights in the United States. Today, thanks to strong leaders and committed activists, Mexican Americans have come a long way in their struggle for the rights and representation and the U.S. government.

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The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848 after the U.S. Mexican war. The treaty stated that people of Mexican descent living in these lands must leave or join the United States and abandon their Mexican loyalties.

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When the American Indians were forced to move out of their homes in the south because the native Americans found good on the American Indian lands and so they were forced to walk over 8 states to go to the west side. That walk was called the trail of tears.

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A disability is a condition, mental or physical, that prevents a person from hearing, moving, seeing, speaking, learning, or living like others. In the past, many people didn’t understand the many causes of disabilities.

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Mexican American students face racism in their schools in East Los Angeles in the 1960s. They weren’t allowed to speak Spanish in class and lessons didn’t include Latino history. Some teachers even discourage, Mexican Americans are going to college, directing them instead to unskilled work.

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The gold Rush up 1949, brought thousands of white minors to California. Many of these miners removed on Mexican Americans from their land, by force or murder.

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In 1838 the first territory to allow women to vote was the Pitcairn Islands.

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On example of people making sure people with disabilities are treated equal.

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The disability rights movement is a movement that fights for equal rights, opportunities and accessibility for people with disabilities.

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Many things for Asian Americans were often very hard because they were discriminated because of their ethnicity. They were not respected as much as other people of a different ethnicity.

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American-Indians came to America across the Bering strait land bridge. When they first arrived they had territories until the Europeans arrived. They often fought over there land so American Indians weren’t necessarily welcome.

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The Asian American movement was a political and social movement that was in the United States in the late 1960s in the mid 1970s.

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One important leader is Judith Heumann. As a child Heumann came down with polio she had used a wheelchair when she was young her parents had to fight for her to attend school.

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Judith Heumann had to fight to become a teacher. From 1993 to 2001, Heumann served as the assistant secretary for the office of special education and Rehabilitative Services in the USDepartment of Education.

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Patsy Mink

Patsy Mink was the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected by congress. Mink grew up in Maui, Hawaii.

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All woman could not vote they decided to protest.

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Some of the women that lead the U S women’s suffrage movement were first involved in the abolitionist movement.