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The list of worker deaths in United States labor disputes captures known incidents of fatal labor-related violence in U.S. labor history, which began in the colonial era with the earliest worker demands around 1636 for better working conditions. It does not include killings of enslaved persons.
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 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 ...
American human rights activist New York City United States: members of the Nation of Islam: Pio Gama Pinto: 1965: 24 February Kenyan journalist Nairobi Kenya: police James Reeb: 1965: 11 March American minister and civil rights activist Alabama United States: mob Viola Liuzzo: 1965: 25 March American civil rights activist Selma, Alabama United ...
International: The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952, and adopted on 31 March 1953. The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights.
Lori Leonard and Debra Leonard are taking up the investigation of the deaths of their parents, John and Madeleine Leonard, who were found dead in the 1970s.
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.