The Women's Civil Rights Movement Women's struggle for equal right has not been an easy or short road. All throughout U.S. history women have been fighting for their rights and for the rights of others. Women have organized and fought their way through legislatures, congressional obstacles and have faced ridicule and indifference. It was a long and uphill battle. It meant defiance of laws and customs that had been accepted from the time of the first settlements, some of the discriminations women were fighting against were women were not permitted to speak at public meeting, women were denied the right to vote. Women did not have a free choice of courses or education. Women could not keep ownership of property when they married. Women could be beaten legally by their "overlords"- their husbands. Women joined and fought by picketing, protesting, paradi....

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