THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:
EQUALITY AND RIGHTS
Women's Rights
Worker's Rights
Minority Rights
Causes
Government Action 🇬🇧
War 🗡
Communication🖊📰
Ideas 💭
Role of the Individual 👨👩
The Pankhursts used physical force to promote their message of suffrage for women
Millicent Fawcett used more peaceful tactics
Their heavy handed tactics alienated many potential supporters and fed into the idea that women were too emotional to get the vote
The suffragettes had a newspaper, which helped to spread their message
7.25 million women were involved in WW2. Many were also involved in WW1. This changed attitudes towards women and persuaded some people that they deserved the vote
In 1918, women over 30 were given the vote. In 1928 women were given the vote on the same conditions as men.
In 1970/75 the Equal Pay Act was passed
In 1873 a law was passed which allowed woman access to their children after a divorce
From 1884 legislation recognised that women were not property
Women should have the vote and deserved their own voice, as well as equality with men
Causes
Government Action 🇬🇧
Ideas 💭
Role of the Individual 👨👩
Economy 💰
Communication 🖊📰
The public relaes of the Scarman and McPherson reports showed the public the level of institutionalised racism taking place at the time
Kelso Chocrane was killed by a white gang in 1959
Enoch Powell was a right wing politician who demanded the repatriation of migrants (Rivers of Blood)
Stephen Lawrence was killed in a racially motivated attack in 1999, which gave rise to a nationwide conversation about race relations
The British Nationality Act (1948) encouraged commonwealth citizens to immigrate to Britain
The various Race Relations Acts (1965,68 and 76) made discrimination illegal
The implementation of stoo and search tactics increased tensions between minorities and police
The 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act limited immigration to Britain
Ideas about equality regardless of race and equality of opportunity were used to support minority rights
Claims about migrants being economic burdens were used to slow minority rights developing
The economic downturn in the early 1980s especially affected the Afro-Caribbean community
74% of the population believed this
Causes
Government Action
Communication
The economy
Ideas
Role of the Individual
Margaret Thatcher was a PM who set out to reduce the power of the trade unions, and whose government closed unproductive mines. She defeated the Miners strike, diminishing the power of the trade unions
Arthur Scargill led the miner's union, and caused the miners strike. He played into Thatcher's hands and contributed to the destruction of trade unions' power
The closing of unproductive pits
What Happened?
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