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Days Until PromotionSlide2
Community Service?
And…
…Let’s
Get the Books Back In!Slide3
Today
Presentations
15
th
Amendment Lecture Slide4
Voter Discrimination After Reconstruction and the 15th
Amendment Slide5
White
Supremacy
Intimidation
and Fear
SegregationSlide6
Jim Crow
Grandfather Clause
Literacy TestSlide7
Intimidation and death
After Reconstruction white supremacist did everything possible to prevent Blacks from voting.
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What Does This Image Make You Think?
This is a 19th-century drawing. What are your impressions about the character being portrayed? What other thoughts and emotions does this image inspire in you?
DISCUSS IN YOUR TABLE GROUPSSlide9
One Vote
"How important is one voter?
In 1645, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England.
In 1694, one voter caused Charles I of England to be executed.
In 1776, one vote game America the English language instead of German.
In 1845 one vote brought Texas into the Union.
In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment.
In 1875, one vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic.
In 1876, one vote gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency of the United States.
In 1923, one vote gave Adolf Hitler leadership of the Nazi Party.
In 1941, one vote saved Selective Service -- just weeks before
Pearl Harbor was attacked
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Fifteenth Amendment, 1871
Grants African-American men the right to vote
Disappoints many women who thought African American men and women would be enfranchised together
African Americans split over whether men should get vote before womenSlide11
Frederick Douglass, 1869
“When women, because they are women, . . . are dragged from their houses and hung upon lamp posts; when their children are torn from their arms, and their brains dashed upon the pavement . . . then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own.”
But was this not true for the black woman?
“Yes, yes, yes. It is true for the black woman but not because she is a woman but because she is black!”Slide12
Sojourner Truth, 1869
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women . . . And if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
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Before 1910
Women’s suffrage movement splits, but then unites in 1890
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Big leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
StantonSlide14
The Next Generation
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died 1902
Susan B. Anthony died 1906
But in the early 1900s many young middle-class women were going to college and joining the suffrage movement
Many working-class women also joined the cause, hoping the right to vote would help improve working conditionsSlide15
Safe or Sorry?
Carrie Chapman Catt led the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She believed in:
Careful state-by-state strategy
Support President Wilson even if he doesn’t outright support suffrage (because Democrats were a safer bet than Republicans)
Act ladylike! Don’t embarrass the movementSlide16
National Woman’s Party
Alice Paul led the National Woman’s Party; believed in more aggressive strategies:
Focused on passing a Constitutional Amendment
Picked up un-ladylike strategies from British suffragists (e.g., heckling politicians, picketing)
Refused to support President Wilson if he wouldn’t support woman suffrage
NWP members were arrested for picketing in front of the White House; they were put in jail, went on a hunger strike and were force-fedSlide17
19th Amendment, 1920
“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.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”
(Tennessee was the 36th state to ratify and it passed by only 1 vote)Slide18
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