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In the United States, the 1884 song "The Equal-Rights Banner" was sung to the tune of the US national anthem by American activists for women's voting rights. [1] " The March of the Women " and " The Women's Marseillaise " were sung by British suffragettes as anthems of the women's suffrage movement in the 1900s–1910s.
Sitcoms too began presenting LGBT characters, with All in the Family producing several episodes on the theme beginning in 1971. Gay sitcom episodes tended to follow one of a handful of plot devices: a character close to a lead character would unexpectedly come out, forcing the characters to confront their own issues with homosexuality; a lead ...
On Our Own is an American sitcom broadcast Sundays at 8:30 pm (EST) on CBS as part of their 1977–78 schedule.It featured Lynnie Greene as Maria Bonino and Bess Armstrong as Julia Peters, two employees in the Bedford Advertising Agency in New York City who also share an apartment.
Television propelled the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s by introducing civil rights campaigns, protests, attacks, and awareness in general onto local and national TV stations. When Northern states saw Southern violence they were shocked, other blacks that saw it became angered, and it brought enough attention and awareness that carried the ...
Steve Pendleton as Mr. Bennett (6 episodes, 1968–1970) Eddie Quillan as Eddie Edson (17 episodes, 1968–71) Lurene Tuttle as Nurse Hannah Yarby (32 episodes, 1968–70) Hank Brandt as Leonard Waggedorn [3] (27 episodes, 1968–71) Fred Williamson as Steve Bruce (1970–71) Paul Winfield as Paul Cameron; Diana Sands as Cousin Sarah Porter ...
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.
Pages in category "1970s American sitcoms" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of 111 total. ... The Odd Couple (1970 TV series) On Our Own (1977 TV series)
One thousand women in Washington, D.C. staged a march down Connecticut Avenue behind a banner reading "We Demand Equality"; [13] in the same city, government workers organized a peaceful protest and staged a "teach-in", which educated people about the injustices done to women, mindful that it was against the law for government workers to strike.