New Birth Of Freedom

In 1940 Ralph Bunche wrote, “Every man in the street, white, black, red or yellow knows that this is the ‘land of the free’…and the ‘the cradle of liberty.” While the Civil war was coming to an end, the nation was forced to have to acknowledge the abolition of slavery and begin to form a definition of the meaning of freedom. President Abraham Lincoln said that the Civil War brought America, “a new birth of freedom.” Freedom is the most fundamental concept to the American individual and country as a whole. The love that Americans have for freedom can be illustrated through statues all the way to the demonstration of the right to vote. The expansions and contractions of freedom in the United States can be seen through passing constitution amendments;

Her biggest and most well-known campaign was for the legalization of contraception. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 but is now known as Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is the first to ever open a birth control clinic that was staffed purely by female doctors. She also had a clinic that was located in Harlem that was staffed only by African Americans. Through her actions and many others there was an increased number of birth control devices, for instance the diaphragm. This gave women the freedom to reduce the chance of pregnancy and the choice in having fewer

This act created equal employment opportunity. What is an equal employment opportunity? It is when employers cannot discriminate potential employees by their sex, race, religion, and ethnicity. After this act was passed populations from different races or sexes were able to get hired easier than it used to be. In the twenty first century this act got updated to include the movement for same-sex marriages. People are allowed the freedom to marry who they love no matter sexual preference. So employers do not have the right to discriminate based on sexual preference. In 1963, there was an important act that was approved called the Equal Pay Act which proposed that women should get paid the same amount of money as males for the same job performance. In 1991, another employment freedom was expanded by approving the Americans with Disabilities Act which stated people with disabilities cannot be discriminated because of their disability. This act also helped population with disabilities in finding a job. The “Apple Store” in Penn Square has an employee with hearing disability. This employee does not have a problem communicating with customers and selling product. Apple company shows that it does not matter for them if a person has disabilities everyone has an equal employment