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Many Black women participating in informal leadership positions, acting as natural "bridge leaders" and, thus, working in the background in communities and rallying support for the movement at a local level, partly explains why standard narratives neglect to acknowledge the imperative roles of women in the civil rights movement.
[4] [187] In general, these efforts did not significantly increase African American support for the Republican Party. [ 4 ] [ 187 ] Few African Americans voted for George W. Bush and other national Republican candidates in the 2004 elections , although he attracted a higher percentage of black voters (15%) to identify as Republican than had any ...
The NAWSA's movement marginalized many African-American women and through this effort was developed the idea of the "educated suffragist". [5] This was the notion that being educated was an important prerequisite for being allowed the right to vote. Since many African-American women were uneducated, this notion meant exclusion from the right to ...
The citizenship schools were also seen as a form of support to Martin Luther King Jr. in the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement. [163] Clark became known as the "Queen mother" or "Grandmother" of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, [166] and Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as "The Mother of the Movement". [167]
African-American support was considered crucial to the Proposition's passage because African Americans made up an unusually large percentage of voters in 2008; the presence of African-American presidential candidate Barack Obama on the ballot was believed to have increased African-American voter turnout. [11]
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 offered legal protections for Native Americans, pregnant women and people with disabilities. Free school breakfast exists because of civil rights activists.
The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War, was held in 1866, helping the women's rights movement regain the momentum it had lost during the war. [87] The convention voted to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens ...
African-American women in the civil rights movement were pivotal to its success. [214] They volunteered as activists, advocates, educators, clerics, writers, spiritual guides, caretakers and politicians for the civil rights movement; leading and participating in organizations that contributed to the cause of civil rights. [214]