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2. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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   Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

3. Timeline of second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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   The first national meeting of the women's liberation movement in Britain took place at Ruskin College. [ 22 ] Coretta Scott King expanded the Civil Rights Movement platform to include women's rights following the death of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. [ 64 ] She previously served as a Women Strike for Peace delegate to the World ...

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

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   California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852

5. Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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   Among the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full affirmative action rights to women, a 1968 EEOC decision ruling illegal sex-segregated help wanted ads, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act (1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality), Title X ...

6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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   The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).

7. Miss America protest - Wikipedia

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   The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included putting symbolic feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk, including bras, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, false ...

8. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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   The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.

9. 35 Feminist Movies to Stream for Women’s History Month - AOL

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   3. ‘Daughters of the Dust’ (1991) Who’s in it? Cora Lee Day, Barbara O, Alva Rogers, Trula Hoosier. Movie rating: PG-13 Fun fact, Daughters of the Dust made history as the first feature film ...