Title: Social Movements | American Government
Headings: Social Movements
Social Movements
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
A Brief History of Social Movements
The Civil Rights Movement
Enduring Image: “I Have a Dream”
The Women’s Movement
A Society of Many Movements
Social Movements and the Media
KEY TAKEAWAYS
EXERCISES

Content: Even as women won the legal right to vote, barriers to their participation remained. States made registration difficult. Women who had been active in the movement to abolish slavery had thought that demands for women’s equality would be next on the agenda. As it turned out, they had to pressure for another fifty years before the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed the right of women to vote. Some women were discouraged from voting by their husbands and friends. [ 3] From the 1960s to the 1980s, the women’s movement was revitalized around the basic goals of achieving equal rights for women in politics, business, organized religion, and sports. Women fought for equal work for equal pay, for women to be ordained as clergy, and for girls to have the same opportunities to compete in school sports as boys. They were successful in achieving many of their goals. Congress passed the Women’s Educational Equity Act in 1974, which included Title IX, requiring schools to remove barriers to females’ full participation in sports. Today, there is no longer a single mass women’s movement.