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Oxfam America invited people to celebrate inspiring women in their lives by sending a free International Women's Day e-Card or honoring a woman whose efforts had made a difference in the fight against hunger and poverty with Oxfam's International Women's Day award. [85] On the occasion of International Women's Day 2012, the ICRC called for more ...
1966: Day of Affirmation by U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, speaking to South African students about individual liberty, apartheid, and the need for civil rights in the United States. 1967: Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence , Martin Luther King Jr.'s anti-Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church in New York City.
Without a title at the time, the speech later became known under the title of "Ain't I a Woman?". [3] Truth was the only black woman in attendance at the conference and many of the other women present did not want her to speak. [4] Truth delivered the speech from the steps of the Old Stone Church, on the second day of the convention.
Hillary Clinton, at the time the First Lady of the United States, gave the speech Women's Rights Are Human Rights at the conference on 5 September 1995. [12] That speech is considered to be influential in the women's rights movement, and in 2013 Clinton led a review of how women's rights have changed since her 1995 speech. [13]
Free Speech Week (FSW), formerly known as "National Freedom of Speech Week", is a national event that recognizes free speech and press in the United States. Free Speech Week is observed during the third full week of October each year. According to its organizers, "the goal of Free Speech Week is to raise public awareness of the importance of ...
Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today's NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #552 on Saturday ...
Welcome to bowl season! From the IS4S Salute to Veterans Bowl on Dec. 14 to the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Jan. 20, 82 teams will play in at least one postseason game.
In this speech Twain spoke out for women's full enfranchisement in the electoral process and predicted that within 25 years, they would have the right to vote. This proved to be true, the Women's Suffrage Amendment to the Constitution being passed by the United States Congress in 1919 and ratified by all the states in 1920.