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African American women of the Civil Rights movement (1954-1968) played a significant role to its impact and success. Women involved participated in sit-ins and other political movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955).
1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the ...
This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]
January 21 – Women's March on Washington, estimated 500,000 protesters marched in the Nation's Capital (with over 1.3 million estimated marched across the United States), and another 3,200,000 marched across the world to promote women's rights, immigration reform, and LGBTQ rights, and to address racial inequities, worker's issues, and ...
EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing Women of the Movement (working title), an anthology series that chronicles the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it. The project, which landed at ABC ...
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts , the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including ...
Soon after the Civil Rights movement President Gerald R. Ford would officially declare February as Black History Month. In honor of Black History month we revisit the moments that defined the ...