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At the time of the protest, women still did not enjoy many of the same freedoms and rights as men. Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited pay discrimination between two people who performed the same job, women comparatively earned 59 cents for every dollar a man made for similar work. [4]
[7] [8] It describes how the women's movement linked to other movements in the United States such as the civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, and the New Left. [9] Also featured in the documentary are the authors of the landmark feminist book Our Bodies, Ourselves and ex-members of the underground abortion organization the Jane ...
John F. Kennedy's administration proposed the President's Commission on the Status of Women to address people who were concerned about women's status while avoiding alienating the Kennedy administration's labor base through support of the Equal Rights Amendment. At the time, labor, which had been important to Kennedy's victory, opposed ...
A week after the Kent State shootings, 100,000 demonstrators converged on Washington to protest the shootings and President Richard Nixon's incursion into Cambodia: 1970 – July 4 Honor America Day: A rally put together by supporters of President Nixon hosted by Bob Hope [12] 1970 – August 26 Women's Strike for Equality
President John F. Kennedy sent a military force to make Governor Wallace step aside, allowing the enrollment of Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood. That evening, President Kennedy addressed the nation on TV and radio with his historic civil rights speech, where he lamented "a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety." He ...
A postshared on social media purportedly shows a video of a liberal activist drinking canola oil in protest of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. U.S. ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, cousin of ...
Liberal women are withholding sex from men and shaving their heads to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris.
During the protest multiple women were arrested and Kennedy took on their cases as their attorney. [15] In the 1970s Kennedy traveled the lecture circuit with writer Gloria Steinem. If a man asked the pair if they were lesbians – a stereotype of feminists at the time – Kennedy would quote Ti-Grace Atkinson and answer, "Are you my alternative?"