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The Latino population is greatly increasing. but they are still thought of as a minority group. There was a massive increase in the agriculture area of work, allowing many Mexican migrant workers t...
Jane Roe, a pregnant, single woman, wished to stop her pregnancy by getting an abortion. This was illegal in Dallas County, Texas where Roe was residing. Roe claimed that her in-ability to get an ...
This occured about 3 years after Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island. The American Indian Movement sieged a town in South Dakota called Wounded Knee. This town was sieged during a protest o...
Title IX was a amendment passed along with the Educational Amendments of 1972. Title IX stated that women and men must have equal funding in schools. These funds were included mostly in sports, but...
The Equal Rights Amendment was an amendment created in 1923. It said that no one could be denied rights on account of sex. It was passed by Congress, but the states wouldn't ratify it. -Georgia H.
For a span of 18 months, Alcatraz island was taken over by Native Americans. While the land was eventually reclaimed, the event led to some changes in federal government policies towardstus reclaim...
The AIM was made to advance the rights of natives and to reembrace their culture. They succeeded in showing the public their plight. They conducted demonstrations such as the Alcatraz occupation an...
In the spring of 1968 King went to Memphis, Tennessee to support striking black garbage collectors; but he didn't leave alive. He was killed by James Earl Ray, an escaped white convict who pleaded ...
these riots took place for five days by a drinking club in a mainly black neighborhood. it started when police invaded a club on after hours when the police fond out there was 82 people hosting a p...
The Black Panthers was the best known black radical group, founded by two men named, Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. The group promoted civil rights and equality. Unlike MLK, most of the organizations...
While speaking at a rally at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, Malcolm X was assasinated at the age of 39. He long believed that he would be killed by Black Muslims, but even though two of the three ...
This act was a landmark in American Legal History. This act became the basis of the Civil Rights movement when it was passed. It was made to enfore the Constitutional right to vote, to defer jure...
Though black men had gained the right to vote in 1870, thanks to the 15th ammendment, many blacks were not able to excercise their right because of the qualitifactions needed to be a registered vot...
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four African-American girls—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carol Robertson—were killed when the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was blown up. T...
On August 28, 1963, some 250,00 people marched on Washington for jobs and fairness for the black community. The outrage sparked when dogs and fire hoses were let loose on teen protesters in Birming...
Medgar Evers joined the US army in his teens and absorbed the work of Jomo Kenyatta, a nationalist leader, and wanted to fight for African Amercian freedom. Evers led boycotts of segregated stores ...
Enacted on June 10, 1963, the Equal Pay Act required equal pay for both genders. It was one of the federal efforts to eliminate sex discrimination. IT is still in effect today, but is criticized fo...
Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mistique, was fired from her job and replaced by a man when she had to take time off work for a maternity leave, and this was when she realized that women ...
More than 1000 students marched to Birmingham to protest against segregation and to show they want civil rights. They were tired of having to use a seprate bathroom, entrance, seating area, etc. T...
James Meredith was raised in central Mississippi along with nine other siblings. Meredith spent nine years in the Air Force. He submitted his application to the University of Mississippi on January...
The Freedom Riders were people (both black and white) who rode the buses from the South to the North. They were voulenteers for the Congress of Racial Equality. Their goal was to protest race segre...
The Grenboro Sit-Ins started when four African American college students (Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond) sat in a North Carolina Woolworth's lunch counter. They we...
The Grenboro Sit-Ins started when four African American college students (Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond) sat in a North Carolina Woolsworth's lunch counter. They w...
The Little Rock Nine was when nine African American students had to attend an all white school. This happened when the Little Rock school board decided to comply with the constitution, meaning it h...
Rosa Parks is seen as the person to start the Civil Rights movement, by using an unknown idea, now called quiet strength. Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a...
Emmett Till was born and rasied in the south side of Chicago and in August 1955, he was bruatlly Murderd. Till was driving down to relatives in Mississippi, when he stopped at a grocery store. Whe...
This landmark Supreme Court decision overturned the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson by saying that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision came as a...
While in jail, Malcolm X joined a group of black Muslims that called themselves the Nation of Islam. This group was led by Elijah Muhammad, an extremest that thought whites were born from the devil...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within ...
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