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  2. McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    McCarthy's involvement in these issues began publicly with a speech he made on Lincoln Day, February 9, 1950, to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. He brandished a piece of paper, which he claimed contained a list of known communists working for the State Department.

  3. Women's Educational Equity Act - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Educational Equity Act authorizes grants “…to develop nonsexist curricula, personnel training programs, and vocational and career counseling.” In addition to these grants, the improvement of physical education programs is also included. These funds helped education facilities to meet the requirements of Title IX. [2]

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

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    The Department of Education's stance was that, because some of its students were receiving federal grants, the school was receiving federal assistance and Title IX applied to it. The court decided that since Grove City College was only receiving federal funding through the grant program, only that program had to be in compliance.

  5. MacArthur Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 117 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.6 billion and provides approximately $260 million annually in grants and impact investments.

  6. Venture capital fund defends grants for Black women in US ...

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    The lawsuit centers on the fund's Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, which awards Black women who own small businesses $20,000 in grants and other resources to grow their businesses.

  7. Fearless Fund counsel: The court ruling barring grants to ...

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    When the Fearless Foundation launched a contest to award $20,000 grants to four Black women-owned businesses, they were sued by the American Alliance for Equal Rights—a nonprofit representing ...

  8. Education policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Education funding was cut substantially after Reagan took office, and abolition of the Department of Education was considered. [22] In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education produced the report A Nation at Risk, outlining issues with the American school system, and the publication increased demand for education reform. [23]

  9. Female education - Wikipedia

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    The Princess: A Medley, a narrative poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is a satire of women's education, still a controversial subject in 1848, when Queen's College first opened in London. Emily Davies campaigned for women's education in the 1860s, and founded Girton College in 1869, as did Anne Clough found Newnham College in 1875.