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Such a wish is in vain. ”27 Women Want Off the Sidelines The position of women pushed them to fight for their own political space. ”28 The first women’s rights convention in history took place at Seneca Falls in 1840. This was the home of the conference’s key organizer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her isolation and anger at the reality of second-class citizenship spurred her actions. The general discontent I felt with woman’s portion as wife, mother, housekeeper, physician, and spiritual guide, the chaotic condition into which everything fell without her constant supervision, and the wearied, anxious look of the majority of women, impressed me with the strong feeling that some active measures should be taken to remedy the wrongs of society in general and of women in particular .

We do not believe in the wholesale deportation of the Negro at the present time. . ” In Walker we see a precursor to the Garveyite movement of the 1920s. In other sections of Walker’s work, he writes bracingly about everything from the effect of white dolls on young black girls to the inhumanity of lynchings. The sham of baseball’s “level playing field” created a man with no illusions in the promise of America. 65 The forceful excising from the league of black players led to tragicomic episodes of managers trying by any means to get the best talent on the field.

The attack ... was repelled without serious difficulty, but we had lost not only our centerfield, but . . ”44 A Civil War Ends After the Civil War, the smashing of the plantocracy laid the groundwork for industrialization to go national—and the country suffered the tumultuous birth pangs of the new unfettered capitalism. As Howard Zinn wrote:The cities . . were death traps of typhus, tuberculosis, hunger, and fire. In New York, 100,000 people lived in the cellars of the slums; 12,000 women worked in houses of prostitution to keep from starving; the garbage, lying 2 feet deep in the streets, was alive with rats.