Picture here through the arrow of time are three important protests:
1) The Women’s Suffrage Movement, or the right for women to vote, in the USA started in the 1840s and not won until the 19th Amendment became part of the Constitution on August 18, 1920. It took a mind-blowing 80 years to win a right that should have always been in place. Can you imagine how different the government would be today if women were voting for those 80 years?
2) Shoko Kambara and I decided we wanted to say something about school segregation, and while researching I found that the largest civil rights demonstration of the 1960s was the New York City school boycott, a.k.a Freedom Day. 464,361 students and teachers stayed home from school and held demonstrations and rallies on February 3, 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations, although a loophole allowed school segregation to continue in large Northern cities including NYC.
3) Black Lives Matter is a massively important movement against police brutality and racially motivated violence with protests that continue to circle the globe.
The ability to protest and make your voice heard is vitally important for a democracy to flourish and make significant changes for it’s citizens. It is through these coloring pages that I am lending my voice to major issues of the day.