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It seems dire predictions of political violence are now commonly issued both by the country’s extreme fringes as well as from the mainstream, write Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware.
A Ladies' Memorial Association (LMA) is a type of organization for women that sprang up all over the American South in the years after the American Civil War. Typically, these were organizations by and for women, whose goal was to raise monuments in Confederate soldiers honor.
War on women" is a slogan in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies and legislation as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights, including abortion.
The "Appeal to womanhood throughout the world" [1] (later known as "Mothers' Day Proclamation") by Julia Ward Howe was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world. . Written in 1870, Howe's "Appeal to womanhood" was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian
THE A-WORD: ‘The A-Word’, a new documentary by The Independent, investigates the state of reproductive rights two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion ...
The Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War, was held in 1866, helping the women's rights movement regain the momentum it had lost during the war. [87] The convention voted to transform itself into the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), whose purpose was to campaign for the equal rights of all citizens ...
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
After the war ended in 1918, American women were no longer allowed to serve in the military, except as nurses, until 1942. [207] However, in 1920 a provision of the Army Reorganization Act granted military nurses the status of officers with "relative rank" from second lieutenant to major (but not full rights and privileges). [118]