PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1960S
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financial independence for Natives
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end de-segregation for Whites
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equal rights for Women
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nothing specific, but they wanted it right NOW!
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Detailed explanation-1: -Activists dressed in vintage clothing to protest the gender segregated help-wanted advertisements in The New York Times. 1973: NOW members organized “Take Back the Night” marches and vigils. Protestors stimulated the movement against sexual assault and power-based personal violence against women.
Detailed explanation-2: -Their broad goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, and a married woman’s right to her own property and wages, custody over her children and control over her own body.
Detailed explanation-3: -But for almost 100 years, women (and men) had been fighting for women’s suffrage: They had made speeches, signed petitions, marched in parades and argued over and over again that women, like men, deserved all of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.