Rights (Carlton)

Today there are a lot of rights that we have now that a lot of people in the past didn’t have or were denied of. Back in the past women didn’t have any rights because they weren’t treated the same as men. They couldn’t vote, get a decent education, or work because people back then thought only men were suppose to do these things. Many people believe that women were incapable of making huge important decisions that men usually made. All they could do was cook, clean and watch children. African Americans were also treated unequally. After they were free from slavery they still weren’t given or denied some of the rights that other people had. Like women they couldn’t get a good decent education, get good job opportunities, or vote. All that change when they started to fight for their rights. In 1920 the 19^th US Constitutional Amendment was pass giving women the right to vote. After World War II the Civil Rights Act of 1964 help both women and African Americans gain the rights that they didn’t used to have or they were denied of. This law banned discrimination in school, public places, jobs and many other fields. If it weren’t for the people in the past we wouldn’t have some of the rights that we have today.