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- - - - Because of the ideas that black skin was not beautiful, it was very hard for African Americans to find beauty products to suit their needs. This included product for their unique hair texture and foundation for their color of skin. Unfortunately, this is still an issue for many women of color today. It is crazy to read how many women today cannot find, not only foundation the right shade, but bronzer, highlight, contour, lipsticks, and blushes that work with their skin tones as well.
        
        Rihanna, celebrity beauty icon, singer, and woman of color, saw the gap in beauty products for women of color and created a cosmetic line that included a record 50 shades of foundation. The mission statement on her website reads: "Rihanna was inspired to create Fenty Beauty after years of experimenting with the best-of-the-best in beauty—and still seeing a void in the industry for products that performed across all skin types and tones. She launched a makeup line “so that women everywhere would be included,” focusing on a wide range of traditionally hard-to-match skin tones, creating formulas that work for all skin types, and pinpointing universal shades. Fenty Beauty
        
        It is unfortunate that we had to wait until the 21st century to see ease of access to beauty products for women of color. As a white woman, I have never struggled to find my shade of foundation or concealer that is the right color or any other issues around access to makeup that works for me. Through social media, beauty influencers, and more, I have become more aware that it is not so easy for women of color to find makeup that works for them, and that is why Fenty Beauty is such a huge deal in the world of equality, awareness, and beauty.
- - - - The act of blackface began with the intention of illustrating that black people were 'ridiculous, comical, stupid, childish, and in need of someone to take care of them.'
      - Women's acts to gain power
        
        The Womens' Suffrage movement ended in 1919, where women were finally allowed to vote in political elections, however, the idea that women could not think for themselves was still strong in many mens minds
        
        Interestingly, some of the first people to fight for equality were white women. These Christian women believed that they were not loving others the way God intended, so they began to fight for equality way earlier than the main movement of history began. This movement did not get as much traction as it deserved, because as discussed, women did not have the ability to make 'adult decisions' and were far too 'sensitive and motherly to make logical choices.' But obviously, the women had it right way sooner than the men did, as in many other instances.
        
        Much of the reason blackface became so popular was to make the abolition movement these women were making seem ridiculous and implausible. To make it seem as though black people could never be equal, because they are at their core lesser than white people and need to be taken care of.
- - - - She has a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame
        
        Reynolds was quoted saying "It doesn't overly concern me if I don't become a superstar. There are more important things for a successful, happy life and career, such as being pleasant, amiable and a decent human being." IMDB which is ironic, considering her use of blackface in the film
      - Reynolds performing in the movie Holiday Inn in blackface
- - - - Bing Crosby is a well-known actor who was in many famous movies all throughout the mid 1900's. Also, he was born in the Seattle area and a big supporter of Gonzaga
      - Crosby in the movie Holiday Inn performing in a musical number in blackface.
- - - - The U.S. Marine Corps accepts African-American men for the first time at a segregated training facility at Camp Montford Point, N.C. They will be known as the Montford Point Marines. (https://www.afro.com/notable-moments-black-history-1917-1942/)
        
        Charity Adams Earley becomes the first Black woman commissioned officer in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) while serving at Fort Des Moines. https://www.afro.com/notable-moments-black-history-1917-1942/
        
        Segregation in US Military
        
        To this day, the military is still discriminating groups of people. Though the military is hugely beneficial and does many things to protect and fight for our country, there are things that need to be addressed. For example, their discrimination of LGBTQ soldiers.
- - - - "Separate but equal" became a term that was widely accepted in society. Equal was a strong word, however, as the separation of what the whites had access to versus what the blacks had access to, was widely different in quality. Although the circumstances were not ideal, they were still better than they had been before, so the African Americans made the most of what they had, and began building their lives as free people.
        
        Lives as free people did not come without its challenges though. As stated before, as the blacks began establishing themselves, they met lots of obstacles in not only not having the resources that others may have had, but they also had to overcome the prejudices others had about them, that were severely untrue, but so engrained into society that pretty much everybody took them to be absolute. This is what blackface did, was keep these prejudices alive and well, no matter how often those ideas were proven wrong.
    - - With this motive, blackface minstrelsy came about. The minstrelsy was meant to paint people of color as being incapable of taking care of themselves, of a lower mental capacity, animal-like, and child-like.