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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]
Black women in the 1960s not only organized and led protests for civil rights, but expanded their reach into issues such as poverty, feminism, and other social matters. The "master narrative" depicts a civil rights movement constructed around notable male figures, failing to fully include female contributors. [ 12 ]
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.
From an 1848 Finger Lakes tea party that inspired women to push for the 19th Amendment and their right to vote to Vietnam War protests of the 1960s and '70s to today's pro-Palestinian ...
The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement. [2] African-American college students attending historically Black colleges and universities in the United States powered the sit-in movement across the country
The SNCC Project: A Year by Year History 1960–1970; SNCC Actions 1960–1970 (map) SNCC 1960 – 1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Retrieved May 2, 2005. crmvet.org - the official website for the Civil Rights Movement Archive; SNCC Documents Online collection of original SNCC documents ~ Civil Rights Movement ...
On Feb. 3, 1970, students and faculty members had shown up at the college’s chapel, Hughes Auditorium, for what they assumed would be one more routine meeting. Students were required to attend ...
Along with student protests and an online movement to oust Moseley, Candia-Bailey’s advocates have lamented that Black women in academia often face disproportionate roadblocks and discrimination ...