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Page 1: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women and African Americans

Page 2: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women• By the mid 19th century, middle and

upper class women could afford to stay home.

• Poor women had to work for wages outside of their home

• What jobs did they do?

Page 3: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women

• Farm Women did not change

• Helped on the farm and with livestock as well as house work

Page 4: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Domestic Workers

• Cleaned houses

• Tended to be black women

- Cooks- Laundresses,

scrub, maids

Page 5: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women• Industry

- Factories gave women new options of employment

- 1 in 5 women held jobs- Worked the lower skilled jobs, were paid ½

of what men made

• Began to fill secretary, school, and store positions

Page 6: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women In Industry

• Issues:

- Work conditions

- low wages

- long hours

Page 7: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

• Burned down in 1911

• Women were locked in to keep working

• 146 died

Page 8: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.
Page 9: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Women Reform

• All women colleges began to open

• Wellesley, Vassar

• Educated Women joined the reform

Page 10: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.
Page 11: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Three Part Strategy• 1) Tried to convince states to grant women

the right to vote- Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, & Idaho

• 2)Pursued court cases to test the 14th amendment

-Anthony tried to vote in 10 states

• 3) Pushed for National constitutional amendment

Page 12: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

19th Amendment

• 1920

• Granted women suffrage nationally

Page 13: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

African American Rights

• Roosevelt supported individuals not all civil rights

Page 14: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Booker T. Washington

• Head of an All Black Vocational Training School

• Respected by Prominent Whites

• Blamed black poverty on the black community; urged to accept discrimination

• Change yourself not others

Page 15: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

Booker T. Washington

• Gradualism- Social and Political equality should be long term goals

• Encouraged immediate economic advancement through vocational training and hiring of black workers by white industrialists

Page 16: Women and African Americans. Women By the mid 19 th century, middle and upper class women could afford to stay home. Poor women had to work for wages.

W.E.B. Dubois

• Criticized Washington

• Dubois called for immediate economic and social equality through academic education, political action, and protest

• Helped establish NAACP in 1909

• Worked for civil rights


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