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California Proposition 6, informally known as the Briggs Initiative, [1] was an unsuccessful ballot initiative put to a referendum on the California state ballot in the November 7, 1978 election. [2] It was sponsored by John Briggs , a conservative state legislator from Orange County .
Harvey Bernard Milk was born in the New York City suburb of Woodmere, to William Milk and Minerva Karns. He was the younger son of Litvak parents and the grandson of Morris Milk, a department store owner [ 4 ] [ 5 ] who helped to organize the first synagogue in the area. [ 6 ]
Harvey Milk was one of the earliest known LGBT activists in California and the United States, ... The first was Proposition 6, the Briggs Initiative, which would have ...
He is perhaps best known for sponsoring Proposition 6 in 1978, ... despite his differences with them, friendly with Harvey Milk and gay activist Randy Shilts.
On November 27, 1978, Dan White, a former member of the Board of Supervisors, climbed through a City Hall window and assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
Proposition 6 asks California voters to amend the state Constitution to ban involuntary servitude, which would end forced labor in state prisons.
Prop 6., which had no opposition filed while it was being voted upon in the state legislature, and in the ballot guide when it was put before voters, would have removed language in the California ...
Harvey Milk supervisor campaign Jim Rivaldo (April 15, 1947–October 17, 2007) was an American political consultant. A gay man, he worked with Harvey Milk on his political activism and campaigns for San Francisco Board of Supervisors .