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Founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. B. R. Ambedkar: 1891 1956 India: social reformer, civil rights activist, and scholar and who drafted Constitution of India, campaigned for Indian independence, fought for the women's rights, fought discrimination and inequality among the people.
Baltimore activists were protest pioneers during the 1930s and 1940s. They organized in the city to fight against housing discrimination, school segregation, prison conditions, and police brutality. [45] The NAACP devoted much of its energy between the first and second world wars to mobilizing a crusade against the lynching of blacks. [46]
This took place during a period in history when racial discrimination against Hispanics, and minorities in general, was widespread throughout the United States. [4] In the 1940s, there were only two schools in Westminster: Hoover Elementary and 17th Street Elementary.
Article 1 defines "discrimination" as any distinction, exclusion, limitation or preference on the basis of race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, origin national or social status, economic status or birth. However, the article indicates a number of situations which are not to be considered to constitute discrimination.
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis Sr. became the first Black person to achieve the rank of brigadier general in the US Army. His son, Benjamin O. Davis Jr., later commanded the famed Tuskegee Airmen. In ...
It fought to end race discrimination through litigation, education, and lobbying efforts. Its crowning achievement was its legal victory in the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954), when the Warren Court ruled that segregation of public schools in the US was unconstitutional and, by implication, overturned the " separate ...
Wake County school leaders want to ban discrimination against the hairstyles worn by some Black students. The Wake school board’s policy committee on Tuesday discussed adding protections for ...
The lawsuit accuses PCS of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act, and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution — all of which the defendants deny.