For better working conditions for experianced laborors. the knights of labor however wanted better working conditions for both non experienced and experienced laborers, which ultimatley led to their downfall as the experianced laborers looked down on the inexperiienced and joined the american federation instead as they only wanted this for experienced laborers.
she claimed it make women unhappy
"Since the women are the ones who bear the babies and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed."
Factory owners strongly supported an open immigration policy during the late 1800s.
In 1964 the congress of racial equality and the student nonviolent coordinating committee launched <u>the Freedom Summer (a campaign to register African American voters).</u>
This campaign was an initiative of both civil organizations Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as a way to increase African American voter registration in Mississippi mainly, (At the time, only 10% of black population in Mississippi had registered), and to protect their right to vote, which had been aggressively attacked by some local authorities and the Ku Klux Klan.
