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Equal rights have been an issue in American society since the day it was founded and it is still a problem today. While women are earning lower wages than men in the same occupation, many African-Americans are unemployed and are also discriminated against. Both inferior to the white man, the fight for equal rights was no easy task, for it took plenty of demonstrations, support, and convincing to begin to cease segregation and oppression. Well-known leaders helped the causes beginning with desegregation and suffrage afterwards. Although women and African-Americans fought for the same rights, they did so in a different manner.

Lets begin with the differences that women went through to achieve equal rights as opposed to African Americans. Seems that women were able to achieve this much easier than African Americans because they did peaceful marches and protests and demonstrations to get to their goal. They hosted conventions with the support of many African Americans.

Women’s suffrage would not have been possible if it weren’t for the African American movement. Considering half the black community were also women, it was necessary for African Americans to obtain civil rights before women. The reason for this was because in order to get the full support for the women’s movement, it required all females in that time to be heard; therefore, African-American women needed to overcome the race issue to ultimately help the cause for women in general. Also, many black men supported the rights for women of their own race, which helped the whole women’s rights movement. For example Fredrick Douglass attended the Seneca Falls Convention, which was a convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848 to discuss the social, civil, and religi...

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...ases. Minority women get the worst when it comes to receiving equal pay. Studies also show that African-American women earn 64 cents to every dollar earned by white men. These statistics heavily support the fact that there are still injustices going on for women, not only in the U.S. but also all over the world. (collegetimes.us/10-surprising-statistics-on-women-in-the-workplace)

The fight for equal rights for African-Americans and women is still occurring in today’s society. Regardless of all the progress they have both made, there are still injustices that they need to overcome. The struggle in the workplace would not be an easy task because it is not as drastic as those issues in the past; however, equality will be achieved through time and effort from both sides, only if they are willing to unite again and fully accomplish the goals they once set forth.

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