Starting with African-Americans; in America, they were first slaves, indentured servants, and even after the Civil War, after the Emancipation Proclamation, there was still a thing called "segregation" where they split up the African-Americans from the Caucasians, and this would happen with regular objects, such as water fountains and restrooms, and even schools. Then we have the buses, where African Americans had to sit in the back. Now, from this upcoming, you don't have much attention, or rights, so they had to fight for their right to vote, and they had to fight for a right to even exist as a regular human being. They finally gained the right to vote in 1965. And now for women, we had to fight because, back then, we were only seen as "property", we had to be supervised, we couldn't have actual jobs, back then you would be the typical house wife, cleaning, chores, teaching your daughter how to cook, and clean. And if we couldn't even come out of our houses unsupervised, what makes you think we can go out and vote? We couldn't vote because we didn't have a say/voice in anything. So that's where the women's rights movement came up, and we have to thank Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, and Lucy Stone. The 19th amendment was passed in 1920, and we had the right to vote.
