Women And The Civil Rights Movement - 2017 Words

Women knew they could handle living by themselves if needed since they had done so during the war when their spouse was overseas. Most of the women that found themselves in these situations would get a divorce and live by themselves instead of living with a person that beats them. The war gave women experience on what it is like to live and raise a family alone without a spouse, so when it came to getting a divorce women did not worry themselves on how they were going to sustain their children. The war, overall, would greatly help women activists to rise with all the other civil rights activist groups. The same way Latinos, Women, and African Americans were over looked, there was another group that struggled to live during this era†¦show more content†¦People in this era believed that gay people were sick and this is what cause people to act indifferent towards them. Gay people distanced themselves from a society that treated them indifferent even though they were from the same race. They would see an opportunity when the United States entered World War II. They would sign up to go fight for the country that treated them indifferent. Both men and women would leave everything behind and join the military, â€Å"†¦where for the first time they met large numbers of gays† as seen on The American Challenge (780). They joined the military for the same reason that all the other minorities did, to fight for their country and maybe they would be accepted by society when they returned home. Unfortunately for them, many people had not changed their views on homosexuality. People would still look and treat them differently just like they did to African Americans and any other minority that fought in the war. After returning home from the war, many gays established themselves in big cities and urban areas were other gays lived. Discrimination towards gays would get worse in the upcoming years. In the early 1950s the government would prohibit gays from working for the federal government. Many gay men and women would loose their jobs due to this. Gays were now being persecuted in America the same way they were persecuted by the Nazis in Europe, the only difference is that the United