Treating people with equality and respect is important because without it women wouldn’t have as many rights as they do now and including the African Americans.

Women were treated unfairly back in the 1900s because they were seen as if their place was at home and their “lack” of knowledge. For example, women weren’t granted the right to vote or attend schools like Harvard. Consequently, these unreasonable advantages led to the Women’s Suffrage Movement and were nicknamed Suffragettes. In effect, Suffragettes were clubbed, beaten and tortured by male guards and some that were part of the movement got arrested. As a result, the right to vote for women was ratified on August 26, 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment. As you can see,