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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).
1970 Medical Center: CBS "Undercurrent" A gay research scientist Dr. Ben Teverly , becomes the target of an anonymous smear campaign. [7] [8] 1970 The Phil Donahue Show: Syndicated "May 1970" Barbara Gittings and Lilli Vincenz appeared; they were the first lesbians to go on a nationally syndicated TV show. [9] 1970 Newsfront: WNDT: June 24, 1970
The Women's Liberation Movement in Canada derived from the anti-war movement, Native Rights Movement [1] and the New Left student movement of the 1960s. An increase in university enrollment, sparked by the post-World War II baby boom, created a student body which believed that they could be catalysts for social change.
1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the ...
When We Rise is an eight-part American docudrama miniseries about the history of LGBT rights advocacy in the United States from the 1970s to the 2010s. It was created by Dustin Lance Black and stars Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Mary-Louise Parker, Michael Kenneth Williams, Austin P. McKenzie, Emily Skeggs, Jonathan Majors, Fiona Dourif, and Sam Jaeger among 30 others.
The Woman-Identified Woman" was a ten-paragraph manifesto, written by the Radicalesbians in 1970. [1] It was first distributed during the Lavender Menace protest at the Second Congress to Unite Women , hosted by the National Organization for Women (NOW) on May 1, 1970, in New York City in response to the lack of lesbian representation at the ...
Feminism is aimed at defining, establishing, and defending a state of equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. It has had a massive influence on American politics. [1] [2] Feminism in the United States is often divided chronologically into first-wave, second-wave, third-wave, and fourth-wave feminism. [3] [4]
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