Answer #1
In turn-of-the-century America, there were some major civil rights advances for some groups, while other groups saw no advances in their civil rights and even saw advances that had been made begin to erode. The time period was well after the end of the Reconstruction era and the beginning of Jim Crow laws, the rise of the suffragette movement, and a continued assault on rights for Native Americans. There was also a significant increase in anti-Asian discrimination. Here are some suggested titles and thesis statements for an essay about civil rights in this era.
Essay Title Recommendation
- Strange Fruit
- From 1776 to 1920: The Journey to Women’s Suffrage
- The Tragedy of Wounded Knee
- Black Codes: A Stain on American History
- Intersectional Feminism and the Role of Black Women in the Suffragette Movement
Thesis Statements Examples
- 1892 may have marked a low point in civil rights for free African Americans, as it had the highest number of recorded lynchings of any year on record.
- Although Abigail Adams encouraged the Continental Congress to incorporate women’s rights into the new constitution, it was over 200 years before women were granted the basic right to vote, which was only one small step in the fight for equality.
- Despite the fact that Native Americans were Americans long before Europeans ever arrived on the country’s shores, they were denied the basic rights of citizenship until 1924 and were still being legally massacred well into the 1890s.
- While some revisionists want to hail the end of slavery as the end of racism in America, the reality is that in the period following the end of Reconstruction, the black codes or Jim Crow laws throughout much of the United States prevented African Americans from exercising many of their guaranteed rights of citizenship and served as a continuation of their bondage.
- Black women have always played…