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Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the First Amendment right to freedom of the press. The ruling made it possible for The New York Times and The Washington Post newspapers to publish the then- classified Pentagon Papers without risk of government ...
Philip Sheldon Foner (December 14, 1910 – December 13, 1994) was an American labor historian and teacher. Foner was a prolific author and editor of more than 100 books. He is considered a pioneer in his extensive works on the role of radicals, Black Americans, and women in American labor and political history, which were generally neglected in mainstream academia at the time.
Actress Fan Bourke opened The Princess, a 500-seat "votes for women" movie theatre, in New Rochelle, New York in late 1915. [ 11 ] In the 21st century, PBS American Experience's 2023 documentary The Vote was released to commemorate the campaign waged by American women for the right to vote and the passage of the 19th Amendment .
Steve York: Documentary: Otpor! 2003 To Kill a King: Mike Barker: Historical drama: Revolution, England: 2004 In My Country: John Boorman: Historical drama: Anti-Apartheid Movement: 2005 V for Vendetta: James McTeigue: Political action film: Revolution: 2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach: Historical drama: Irish War of Independence ...
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The case Miles v. United States establishes that a second wife may testify as to her husband's bigamy because their marriage is not de jure. [38] Oregon: Married women were granted trade licenses and control over their earnings. [4] 1881. Vermont: Married women were granted separate economy and trade licenses. [4]
Manganinnie, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, survives a raid and searches for her tribe with the company of a lost white girl. Max Havelaar: 1976 Based on the 1860 novel Max Havelaar by Multatuli. Meek's Cutoff: 2010 Frontier guide Stephen Meek led a wagon train through the Oregon desert along the Meek Cutoff in the United States. Michael Collins ...