BY MAKEDA BARR-BROWN, PICHTIDA CHHEAN, AND CODY MAID WOMEN'S MOVEMENT

WHAT IS THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT? A movement for women's rights Women were considered moral guardians African American women wanted to stop racism

GOALS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT Join volunteer organizations Conducted research Implement programs Lobbied for legislation Raise wages and conditions for working class women

SUFFRAGE Fighting for women's right to vote Led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Led to passing of 19th amendment in 1920 which gave women the right to vote

IMPORTANT SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Led by Carrie Chapman Catt Lobbied for President Wilson and congress to pass women's suffrage constitution amendment Membership in 1910 was in the millions

IMPORTANT SUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONS National Woman's Party (NWP) Leader was Alice Paul Militant Picketed the White House to make the pass women's suffrage constitution amendment

BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT Movement to reform issuers related to marriage, sexuality, and childbirth Censure porn Abolish prostitution Stop trafficking Raise age of sexual consent Pro sex ed. Believed it was the right of wives to refuse husbands Didn't want men to be sexually superior to women

IMPACT OF BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT Birth rates went down Divorce was an option, but it wasn't popular Women chose not to get married Created American Birth Control League which became planned parenthood National Birth Control League also formed

NEW FEMINISM The belief that the women's movement was about more than the right to vote. Women wanted emotional and sexual freedom.

MATERNALIST REFORM Mass movement for direct government action to improve living standards of poor mothers and children 1910 law that gave them a pension Benefitted white widows Didn't really help single mothers and African American mothers