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  2. Women's Strike for Equality - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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    CBS was the first major network to cover women's liberation when it aired coverage on 15 January 1970 of the D.C. Women's Liberation group's disruption of Senate hearings on birth control as a small item in their broadcast. Within a week, the women's protests became leading stories on both CBS and ABC.

  4. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Several abortion clinics (most known was the Alexandria Health Clinic) sued to prevent Jayne Bray and other anti-abortion protesters from voicing their freedom of speech in front of the clinics in Washington D.C. [299] Alexandria Women's Health Clinic reported that the protesters violated 42 U.S.C. 1985(3), which prohibits protests to deprive ...

  5. Phyllis Schlafly - Wikipedia

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    American feminists made their greatest bid for national attention at the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston; however, historian Marjorie J. Spruill argues that the anti-feminists led by Schlafly organized a highly successful counter-conference, the Pro-Life, Pro-Family Rally, to protest the National Women's Conference and make it clear ...

  6. Timeline of second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-eight women, among them Betty Friedan, founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) to function as a civil rights organization for women. Betty Friedan became its first president . The group is now one of the largest women's groups in the U.S. and pursues its goals through extensive legislative lobbying, litigation, and public ...

  7. Troops fired on Kent State students in 1970. Survivors see ...

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    Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970 Troops fired on Kent State ...

  8. Category:1970 protests - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1970 protests" ... Women's Strike for Equality This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 18:10 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  9. El Camino Real Charter High students walk out over alleged ...

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    Students at El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills staged a walkout Tuesday to protest recent antisemitic incidents on campus.. The action, which was organized by a group of seniors ...