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Movement, Womens Rights Movement, and the LGBT Rights Movement, ect. Currently in
todays society, movements like this still exist. We constantly see the Black Lives Matter group
walking the streets when theres been an upset against the African American community. We
saw the Womens March that took place worldwide on January 21st of this year. Weve also
seen countless gay pride parades taking place across the nation. Weve made a lot of progress in
increasing equal rights for people no matter their race, gender, or sexuality. However, these
groups still have battles they are fighting, mostly social ones. Racism, sexism, and homophobia
still exist. Discrimination against those of a particular race, gender, or sexuality still goes on
behind closed doors. Since the progression of technology and social media, these underlying
From seeing what has happened in history, we still have not forgotten all the past marches
and fights for equality. Many of these marches and protests came from things that were in the
newspaper. For example, the story of Emmett Till, a 14 yr old African American boy from
Mississippi who was brutally murdered for a false accusation of flirting with a white woman. His
story ended up in newspapers and magazines and was a pivotal catalyst for what came next in the
Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. Another example of this was when Alice Paul was arrested
for protesting for Womens suffrage. She went on a hunger strike in prison and was force fed raw
eggs in response to her disobedience. After her story became known to the public, it caused an
upset. It added fuel to the fire for women fighting for suffrage. As shown in the textbook, in the
1960, despite finally have equal rights, Women were still not treated as equals in the workplace.
By participating in movements, by the 1980s, their roles had increased especially in education.
Its been shown in history as people participate in movements like this, they are able to make
change. African Americans and Women both have equal rights. In recent years, gay marriage
was legalized which was major stepping stone in equalizing the rights of those in the LGBT
community. As certain issues are brought to the public, which now and days is through social
media instead of the newspaper, people protest for what they believe is right. If things continue
like they have in history, I believe the wage gap between men and women and the wage gap
between Caucasians and African Americans will lessen and hopefully one day disappear. I also
see many of the current social issues of racism, sexism, and homophobia continue to go away. I
see in the future my grandchildren reading about our current movements in their history