The Court's ruling effectively freed corporations and unions to spend money both on "electioneering communications" and to directly advocate for the election or defeat of candidates (although not to contribute directly to candidates or political parties).
Seeking their own rights, women used more peaceful tactics but suffered long delays. ... The women's rights movement was the offspring of abolition. Many people actively supported both reforms. Several participants in the 1848 First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls had already labored in the anti-slavery movement.
We had diff water fountains with blacks having a rundown version of everything the whites had. if they even had it