Lesson 5.5 - Social Justice

The right to freedom of religion.

The right to vote.

The struggle to gain independence from a harsh government.

Alice Paul

Carrie Chapman Catt

Booker T. Washington

It made it legal for the federal government to tax the income of citizens.

It made slavery in the United States illegal.

It granted women the right to vote.

To persuade people to stop drinking.

To get women the right to vote.

To urge the government to require workplace safety inspections.

They believed that women should play a role in government.

They believed alcohol was a threat to their families.

They believed that racial segregation should be illegal.

It gave women the right to vote

It made it illegal to sell or produce alcoholic beverages

It made racial segregation illegal

George Washington Carver

Ida B. Wells

CJ Walker

African Americans should create their own separate society from white Americans.

African Americans should use the court system to enforce laws created to establish equality.

African Americans should get an education and acquire a skill to gain the respect of others.

The Tuskegee Institute

Hampton University

Alcorn State University

African Americans should get an education and acquire a skill to gain the respect of others.

African Americans should use the court system to enforce laws created to establish equality.

African Americans should create their own separate society from white Americans.