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    More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights groups on Monday urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, claiming the measure, which the ...

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    Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to serve as assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, standing in the offices of the Department of Justice's Civil ...

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    Approaching the issue of women’s rights from a practical and common-sense perspective that puts America first is beautifully aligned with America’s new direction under President Trump.

  5. African-American women in the civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    Fannie Lu Hamer, born in 1917 and raised in Montgomery County, Mississippi, was a civil rights activist that believed in the rights of women and African American women. According to Janice Hamlet's essay “‘Fannie Lou Hamer: The Unquenchable Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement’” describes Hamer as a power voice and standing up for her ...

  6. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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    Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...

  7. History of civil rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on American society – in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism .

  8. 7 women who influenced Martin Luther King Jr. - AOL

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    Height is known as one of America's most prominent civil rights activists. Her work focused on Black womanhood, and for decades she was president of the National Council of Negro Women.

  9. Civil rights movement - Wikipedia

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    African-American women in the civil rights movement were pivotal to its success. [214] They volunteered as activists, advocates, educators, clerics, writers, spiritual guides, caretakers and politicians for the civil rights movement; leading and participating in organizations that contributed to the cause of civil rights. [ 214 ]