Women s Rights Women Of Color Organize For Reproductive...

Since the dawn of American culture, women have been oppressed. Due to inequalities in the hierarchy of social power, women have been targeted for discrimination. However, women have not sat quietly and let the â€Å"man† dictate their lives. Through movement raised through women of all cultures, change has come to all American women. Racism, homophobia and classism created hardships for the American women who rebled through reproductive justice organizations, anarcho-syndicalism, and embracement of their sexual orientation. These helped efforts created the foundation that we live in today and continues to inspire and mold the environment . Racism, in particular to the African American, can be traced back farther than the days when slavery thrived. After the slaves were freed and the phrase â€Å"All men are created equal† was not applied to the African American race. Women continued to experience this even after their gender counterparts received semi equal rights. Jael Silliman, chronicled this struggle in her novel Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice†. The book opens up with the quote â€Å"We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired†(Silliman 1). This quote rings true, even to this day African American women continue to use this quote. These words however, were said by Fannie Lou Hamer as she presented at a gathering of over 1500 African American women. This gathering of thousands of African American women spoke about the inequalities African Americans