As the 1960s progressed, the women's liberation movement gained momentum alongside the civil rights and anti-war movements. It was a time of tremendous change, especially for women. Though popular ...
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...
Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act ...
Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement ... told Elle her contract in the 1960s included the clause that she ...
The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...
Like the activists leading the U.S. civil ... 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted. In addition to abolitionism, he worked tirelessly to desegregate schools, militias, and public spaces, and was ...
As the 1960s progressed, the women's liberation movement gained momentum alongside the civil rights and anti-war movements. It was a time of tremendous change, especially for women. Though popular ...