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1954 -  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Unanimous decision declaring "separate but equal" unconstitutional. The decision overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896.

 

1956 -  Dorothy Counts at Harding High: A story of pride, prejudice

Dorothy Counts was one of the first black students admitted to the Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, North Carolina. After four days of harassment that threatened her safety, her parents forced her to withdraw from the school.

 

1963 - The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan publishes her highly influential book The Feminine Mystique, which describes the dissatisfaction felt by middle-class American housewives with the narrow role imposed on them by society. The book becomes a best-seller and galvanizes the modern women's rights movement.

 

1964 - Employment Opportunity Commission established 

 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964  bars discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex. At the same time it establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate complaints and impose penalties

 

1965 -  Birth Control and the Constitutional Right of Privacy

In Griswold vs. Connecticut, the  Supreme Court strikes down the one remaining state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples.

 

 

1965 - Cesar Chavez & the Delano Grape Strike

The Delano grape strike was a labor strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and lasted more than five years. Due largely to a consumer boycott of non-union grapes, the strike ended with a significant victory for the United Farm Workers as well as its first contract with the growers.

 

 

1966 - The National Organization for Women

N.O.W is founded by a group of feminists including Betty Friedan. The largest women's rights group in the U.S., NOW seeks to end sexual discrimination, especially in the workplace, by means of legislative lobbying, litigation, and public demonstrations.

 

 

 

 

1968  - American Indian Movement (AIM) 

A militant American Indian civil rights organization, original purpose was to help Indians in urban ghettos who had been displaced by government programs that had the effect of forcing them from the reservations. Its goals eventually encompassed the entire spectrum of Indian demands—economic independence, revitalization of traditional culture, protection of legal rights, and, most especially, autonomy over tribal areas and the restoration of lands that they believed had been illegally seized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1969- Freedom of Expression 

In Tinker vs Desmoines, the Supreme Court found high school antiwar protests (Vietnam), including the wearing of black armbands, to be protected free speech, holding that students do not shed their freedom of expression “at the schoolhouse gate.”

 

1969  - Turning Point in Gay Rights History

The Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the single most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1972  - Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education  

The Supreme Court upholds busing as a legitimate means for achieving integration of public schools. Although largely unwelcome (and sometimes violently opposed) in local school districts, court-ordered busing plans in cities such as Charlotte, Boston, and Denver continue until the late 1990s.

 

 

"The Soiling of Old Glory," April 5, 1976

 

 

 

1973 - Protecting a Woman's Right to Choose

 In Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court ruled that the fetus was not a person with constitutional rights; right to privacy in the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process guarantee of personal liberty protected a woman’s right to choose.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We all want the same things in life. We want freedom; we want freedom; we want the chance for prosperity; we want as few people suffering as possible; we want healthy children; we want crime –free streets. The argument is how to achieve them…

 

Liberals

Believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all. It is the duty of the government to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual human rights. Liberals believe the role of government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Liberal policies generally emphasize the need for government to solve the problem.

 

Conservatives

Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional American values and strong national defense. Conservatives believe the role of government should be to provide people the freedom necessary to pursue their own goals. Conservative policies generally emphasize empowerment of the individual to solve problems

 

 

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