How did women participate in the Civil Rights Movement? Who are some examples?

From leading local civil rights organizations to serving as lawyers on school segregation lawsuits and more.

Explanation:

Some examples include:

❤️Lonnie King : activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta.

❤️Ruby Nell Sales: who later overcame psychological traumas from the racial violence she witnessed in the movement, encourages us to look beyond the simplistic story of Rosa Parks refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery.

❤️Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger on December 1, 1955.

❤️Fannie Lou Hamer : was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and deeply committed to helping African-Americans gain their voting rights.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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