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Equality is a short film by American filmmaker, Al Sutton, MD, [1] a documentary under the genre of human rights, social issues, history and news.The film contains rare footage [2] of the Women's Strike for Equality, the gender equality protest of August 26, 1970, [3] where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in New York City to show support for the feminist movement and to ...
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 Collective. [10] The documentary ends with coverage of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality and the lasting accomplishments of the movement. [7]
The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote. [1] The rally was sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.
Together Films has acquired the worldwide rights to “An Army of Women,” which will have its world premiere at South by Southwest in March. The feature documentary, directed by Julie Lunde ...
Latina civil rights icon Dolores Huerta says music was a spark in the farmworker movement led by her and César Chávez in the documentary "A Song for César." Music sparked the nation's largest ...