Young Americans may not understand how hard won our Civil Rights are. And how recently those battles were fought. Married women got the right to use birth control in 1965 although I think they may have needed permission from their husbands to get it. Single women? We had to wait until 1972.
BTW, the year 1965 is when the Voting Rights Act was passed and “gave African American voters the legal means to challenge voting restrictions and vastly improved voter turnout...” www.history.com/…
Of course it took the VRA to allow Black women to vote even though White women earned that right in 1920. Thats how hard the progress has been in American history, not even women have managed to stick together about something important and fundamental like the right to vote.
Americans with Disabilities? Substantial legislation on the Federal level only began in 1990.
Gay marriage had to wait until very recently, 2015 with Obergefell v Hodges.
Republicans like to bleet about Critical Race Theory because it focuses attention of low information voters on the word ‘Race’ and helps divide Americans.
We need to drown out this noise by insisting on recommitting America to protecting and expanding CIVIL RIGHTS for all Americans. Women, Disabled, People of Color and GLBT.
Democrats need to remind Americans that our collective Civil Rights are being stripped away. We need to agitate for our children to be instructed about Civil Rights History. What conditions were like for different groups of Americans before legislation was passed, when laws were passed and how a regressive political movement is trying to destroy all our progress.
A super quick search for something to use as an educational guide in schools?
Civil Rights in the United States, A Brief History
guides.ll.georgetown.edu/...