Look at the graphic from Citizenship.
What central idea in Citizenship does this example support?
People should follow powerful leaders and do what they
say.
it's usually up to citizens to spur change. Before women were allowed to vote,
both men and women organized, protested, and marched. Finally, in 1920,
the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote.
WOMEN'S
WOMEN'S
RIGHT
TO VOTE!!
RIGHTS
get the vote!
It's about time
we had a voice
speak up
we'll never
O Not everyone must vote, but all people should help their
communities.
Marches are one way that people can make their views
known.
People should participate in shaping their laws and
government.
In the 1960s, African Americans were fed up with being denied jobs and
education because of the color of their skin. Civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. wged his supporters to stage marches. Stins, and spaches
In 1964 their efforts paid off with the passage of the Civil Rights Act
azt guaranteed them the same rights as whites