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At the time of the protest, women still did not enjoy many of the same freedoms and rights as men. Despite the passage of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibited pay discrimination between two people who performed the same job, women comparatively earned 59 cents for every dollar a man made for similar work. [4]
On May 11, 1970, the Abortion Caravan and a large number of supporters returned to Parliament Hill with the intent to go into the public gallery of the House of Commons and chain themselves to the chairs – an act inspired by the British suffragettes who chained themselves to protest their lack of voting rights. The women had planned to split ...
The Tayside Women's Liberation Newsletter began in 1975 and was published by WLM groups from Dundee and St Andrews. The Scottish Women's Liberation Journal began publication in 1977, changing its name to MsPrint the following year originated in Dundee and was printed by Aberdeen People's Press. Nessie, published in St Andrews, was begun in 1979 ...
The shootings influences further anti-Vietnam War protests across college campuses, as well as at the White House, where 100,000 people protested on May 9, 1970. Victory Bell on Kent State campus ...
It documents two protest rallies against the Vietnam War that took place in May 1970: the Hard Hat Riot on Wall Street in New York City and Kent State/Cambodia Incursion Protest in Washington, D.C. The numerous camera operators do impromptu interviews with the protesters and the spectators.
Jones and other Weathermen failed to appear for their March 1970 court date to face charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot and conspiring to do so". "Unlawful flight to avoid prosecution" charges were added when they failed to appear in court.
1970s Yale was place of expanding diversity. That came to a head with the trial of Black Panthers Ericka Huggins and Bobby Seale. War protests, Black Panther Party: Yale alums reflect on Black ...
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