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8. Idealism vs. Materlialism – How History is Made: Haudenosaunee Women / the Suffragettes / the Double V Campaign / The English Peasant’s Revolt of 1381 / The Anarchist Revolution in Spain 1936-39

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The Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States

In scandinavian countries, which were largely agricultural economies, women's work wasn't so obviously segregated from men's work. Even though sweden was neutral in world war one, the success of suffrage movements in nearby countries that did fight in the war was enough to motivate swedish women to push for their rights. The story is similar to the black civil rights movement in the united states, which, not coincidentally, emerged with much greater force after world war two. Energized mobilization and activism by black soldiers veterans in their organize ations lead to president roosevelt passing ordinances to end discrimination in defense department jobs. But it took a much longer battle to get full legal

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