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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

EXAMINING THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT OF THE WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Iliana Melendez
@ilianamelendez

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I.B.M.

mi historia

TIME,
PEOPLE,
& WORDS

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TIME

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1777

All states pass laws forbidding women the right to vote..
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1848
The first women's rights convention takes place in Seneca Falls, New York. Participants call for equal treatment and voting rights for women.

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1866 all citizens can vote!

Except...Citizen and voter are defined as male by congress.
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1920

19TH AMENDMENT GRANTS WOMEN VOTING RIGHTS
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MORE OF THE ISSUES THEN

  • 1916:1st Birth Control (BC) Clinic (Closed 10 days after opening & re-opened in 1923 with legal protections)
  • 1936: Federal Law Establishes BC No Longer Obscene
  • 1960: FDA Approves BC
  • 1972: Title IX
  • 1973: Roe v. Wade

THE ISSUES now

  • Access to Reproductive Health
  • Insurance & Paying for Reproductive Health
  • Title IX & Sexual Violence
  • Choice
  • Legislative Voice
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PEOPLE

THE WOMEN OF THE MOVEMENT
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Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Blackwell, Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Mary McLeod Bethune, Blanche Scott, Florence Ellinwood Allen, Jeannette Rankin, Rosa Parks, Ella Grasso, Dolores Huerta, Sandra Day O'Connor, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins, Madeleine K. Albright

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Oprah, Cristina, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Ann Richards, Wendy Davis, Michelle Obama, Lavern Cox, Gloria Anzaldua, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Colars, Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor

of the movement

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The affects of time & pEOPLE

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intersectionality

international

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transgender women

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money

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SINCE 1848 -TODAY

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What awaits

women now? 

"...YOU [and I] are no less an example of the butterfly effect than Chamberlain was."

"Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. You have been created in order to make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world."

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