Greinert




Women of Protest was a huge organization dating back to the early 1900s when it was called the Women's suffrage Association. This group of Women were strong and intelligent; looking to change the restrictions they faced. They were very effective in their campaigning, because they put themselves out there, letting the world see them and what they believed in. They accomplished all they did through parades, demonstrations, and protests. Sometimes even going to the lengths of getting arrested, or organizing hunger strikes. This was all for a purpose of gaining public talk, which gave them what they wanted, publicity. They made themselves vulnerable to criticism and even harm for what they believed in. They built a legacy for the exercise of free speech and free assembly. Since this organization has been around for many years, there is bound to be some changes. The world is growing with technology and social networking daily. I believe social networking has made organizations like this more effective in their methods of "protest".

The 1920s was an extremely eventful year for the Women of Protest. Their goal was loud and clear, and that was the ratification of the 19th amendment. They held many lobbies and picket conventions to gain awareness. It started in 1919 with the watch fire demonstrations. They stood in front of the WhiteHouse with banners scolding President Wilson and burning urns. In these burning urns they threw pictures of President Wilson to show their hatred towards him. There were many of these watch fire demonstrations held, and many women arrested because of it. The women that were jailed traveled across the country on "Prison Special Tours" where they spoke about their jail time and their cause for the women's suffrage amendment. About three months later, The House of Representatives and Senate passes the federal women's suffrage amendment. Two of the first states to ratify were Wisconsin and Michigan. As time went on, more and more states began to ratify. However, there will still not enough. Therefore, they went to those states who hadn't ratified and lobbied. They didn't give up until August 26th 1920, when the 19th amendment became a law. Finally, on November 2nd 1920, women, for the first time, were able to vote.
 * We Want a Vote (1920s)**

Women continued to push for equal rights. A new issue concerning women losing their citizenship if they marry a alien was presented. After intense lobbying, the Cable Act was passed by congress making it a law that citizenship would not be lost in the situation. The Cable Act also establish equal nationality laws, making it acceptable to marry any other nationality. When the Cable Act was first passed, there was a limitation on which nationalities were accepted. They also offered a hand, for a whole five years, in the repeal of Section 213, Legislative Appropriations Act, which prohibited federal employees from working for the government if their spouse was employed there. Soon after, they had the victory of passing the Fair Labor Standard Act, which established a minimum wage and time and a half for overtime workers despite their gender. This was a huge Legislative victory for the National Women's Party. Finally after almost fifty years since it had been introduced, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed and sent to the the states for Ratification. Unfortunately, it was unable to gain enough states support before its time expired in 1982.
 * Further Improvement**

Towards the end of their decades-long party, the National Women's Party created the Women's Party Corporation. This was an organization that could collect tax contributions that would finance the party's educational activities. This included maintaining the historic Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, which was the party's headquarters. Twenty years after the creation of the Women's Party Corporation, the National Women's Party came to an end. It turned into a non-profit, non-political, educational organization. Now, we have many women in the government that are fighting to become something bigger. We no longer have the National Women's Party, but i believe in a sense, it still lives on. Many women now still stand up for what they believe is right, and what they want changed in the world. Today there is NOW, which is the National Organization For Women. This began in 1966, and it was influenced by the National Women's Party.
 * A beginning and an end**



Through out their run they had a very consistent ways of making their voice be heard. Their biggest use of "social networking" was just by word of mouth. They used their words to bring people together and stand for something important. This was effective enough to bring sometimes hundreds of women to rallies. They were aggressive, relentless, clever, and creative with their tactics. They did this through parades, rallies and demonstrations in the streets of the United Statescapital and all throughout the country. They even used newspapers and books to bring awareness. Women eventually realized they needed to be more aggressive. Therefore, they started to lobby and petition state and even national politicians; ultimately picketed the White House. Even later, they began to use transportation such as trains to travel to different cities and states to tell people their stories. Then they began to branch out and create more organizations. In doing this, they found a way to bring in contributions to support their organization. With the expansion of social networking, or the ways women had to communicate with each other and their audience, the National Women's Party grew to be an organization that everyone knew about. They started out small, and grew to be huge because of the tactics available to them. Then came the National Organization For Women. They grow awareness through rallies and demonstrations, but also through the internet. Therefore, women can use the worldwide web to voice their opinion, and anyone and everyone can see it. The internet also gives this organization ways to invite new people to join their cause if one wishes; providing them with more support. **[|video]**
 * Changes made**

We all love social networking because of the simplicity it gives us. We can talk to someone, see a picture or video of them, Skype with them, all in a blink of an eye. It's amazing how social networking makes it easy to communicate with people. Through out time we see how convenient internet and texting has been for communication. It gets things done faster and more efficiently. I believe it has become very effective in creating awareness about anything from health risks, new stores, important news, and campaigning. It gives us direct feed to anything we want to see or know, and lets people send us important things they want us to know. We have grown so used to advances like this, that we seem to forget that way back when it took weeks for important news to be filtered to everyone, and to ask a simple question to your best friend, you had to write a letter. Social Networking gives everyone the chance to be heard.
 * In Conclusion**


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