Black American Rights Movement
The First African American President...
What is...Barack Obama?
Is a grassroots movement for Indigenous rights, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
What is... The American Indian Movement (AIM)?
ADA stands for...
What is...The Americans with Disabilities Act?
In 1911, California gave women the right to....
What is... to vote?
In 1993-94, this Policy was a compromise where to be able to serve in the military, homosexuals were told not to speak about their orientation and superiors were banned from asking them their sexuality.
What is... Don't ask, Don't Tell?
After King’s assassination, Jesse Jackson launched Operation...
What is...People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH)?
Monitored how police and the courts treated Native Americans.
What is... AIM Patrol?
Section 504 banned...
What is... the discrimination on the basis of disability by recipients of federal funds?
Susan Faludi, a Bay Area-based writer for the Wall Street Journal, critically examined in her 1991 book.....
What is...Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women?
The North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993-94, was successful in...
What is... creating a free trade zone in between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
NAACP stands for...
What is... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
In 2007, the UN adopted the...
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
HEW stands for.....
What is... The Department of Health, Education and Welfare?
A former governor of California and president; was against abortion, reproduction rights, and government regulation.
What is....Ronald Reagan?
Was introduced in 1991, as part of the rise of the internet.
What is... the worldwide web?
Who in 1940 had represented one-third of the entire black workforce.
What is... black farm laborers, farmers, and agricultural managers
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples...
What is ... enshrined the rights of Indigenous peoples to cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment, health and education into international law by a vote of 144 to 4
Was first introduced in 1984 and finally passed in 1988; was referred to as CRRA.
What is... Civil Rights Restoration Act?
A professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, and published Women, Race, and Class.
What is...Angela Davis?
Bill Clinton was accused of an affair with....
What is... Monica Lewinsky?
Resulted in black workers being employed intp blue collar jobs, with millions of them in heavy industry such as steel, automobile production, electrical and non-electrical machinery, appliances, food and tobacco manufacturing, and textiles.
What is... The Civil Rights Movement?
In 1972, the year after the occupation of the Milwaukee Coast Guard building, AIM founded a school called...
What is... the Heart of the Earth Survival School in Minneapolis?
In 1988 this act was amended by the civil rights community to improve enforcement mechanisms. As a result, for the first time disability anti-discrimination provisions were included in a traditional civil rights statute banning race discrimination.
What is... Fair Housing Act (FHA)?
In 1984, at the democratic convention held in San Francisco's Moscone Center, she became the first woman nominated as vice president by a major political party.
What is...Geraldine Ferraro?
In 1992 this event shined light on the cruel reality of police brutality and caused an uproar when the officers were found not guilty.
What is... The Rodney King Riots?