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Populist Movement Pros And Cons

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Two other great persons were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederic Douglas said in 1848 that women have an equal right to vote, but it took a struggle of 72 years after that before the politicians and the country agreed (Bolden 202). In 1919, the year after World War I ended, seventy- seven African Americans were lynched in the South, twenty of them U.S. Army veterans (Osborne 81). History has said more than a thousand words to me yes, African Americans fought hard to have the same equality, but regardless of their eagerness to learn and serve the same state like white people they were still killed and murdered. It stood for the Equal Rights Amendments that took place in 1923. In the 1890's though they called it "Woman's Era," yet they were not allowed to vote. By the 1900's they began to hold jobs about 5 million women began to work. (Foner 663). Three years after the 19th Amendment finally guaranteed a woman's right to vote everywhere in the country (Bolden 203). Congress didn't pass it until 1972 then it had to be approved by 38 state legislatures within seven years. Although they had to extend its time frame in 1982, only 35 states had ratified …show more content…

A woman spoke about Mary Elizabeth Lease, a former homesteader and one of the beginning female lawyers in Kansas. As an activist, she ran but had no success trying to run for the U.S. Senate on the Populist Party ticket in 1983 (Foner 643). The Populist had gone over the heads of the established leader the larger groups of Republicans and wanted to convert Negroes into the Populist group. What tactics they use to patronize them in giving them a sense of belonging to a society with sentimental liberalism. A given example was Henry Demarest Lloyd, a Southern Populist giving the "Negroes of the South a political fellowship which they have never obtained, not even from the Republicans who had saved them before." (Gatell

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