Civil Rights Movement
A law that makes it illegal to discriminate against someone because of their race in public facilities.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The first women's rights convention
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
On this day, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act) protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination.
What happened on June 15, 2020?
This is the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of fifty-five national and international unions and together representing 12.5 million working people.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)?
An American women's rights activist, Quaker, and one of three portrait busts in the Capitol Rotunda.
Susan B. Anthony
The first gay rights organization (or at least the oldest documented in America), founded on December 10, 1924
What is The Society for Human Rights?
This United States labor law amended the Fair Labor Standards Act so that wage discrimination based on gender became illegal.
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
A 15-year-old woman by the name of Claudette Collins was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded bus in Montgomery, Alabama but was replaced as one of the faces for the Civil Rights Movement. Who replaced Claudette Collins?
Rosa Parks
The first woman to hold federal office in the US
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
On March 10, 1987, this AIDS advocacy group was formed to fight AIDS and protect the rights of the gay and lesbian community. It held demonstrations against pharmaceutical companies profiteering from AIDS-related drugs and the lack of AIDS policies protecting patients from outrageous prescription prices.
What is the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)?
Born in Yuma, Arizona, this labor leader, community organizer, and Latino American civil rights activist co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Who is César Estrada Chávez?
An expensive sound system was installed for this event, but it was sabotaged right before it.
What was sabotaged during MLK's speech in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
A wealthy African-American abolitionist, educator, suffragette, and resident of Washington, D.C. known for her poems and essays.
Who is Charlotte Forten Grimké?
A queer, Latina, self-identified drag queen who fought for transgender and gender-nonconforming rights. She also founded the activist organization S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) and could have thrown the first brick at the 1969 Stonewall riots.
Who is Sylvia Rivera?
On March 25, 1911, this factory in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City caught on fire and became known as the site for one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
The first all-Black Californian township, founded and financed by African Americans in 1908.
Allensworth, California
The meeting during which abolitionist Frederick Douglass and suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony debated whether they should support an equal voting rights amendment if it only referenced Black men - with both sides arguing how the lack of suffrage endangered their community.
What is the 1869 meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA)?
The first openly gay American elected to public office after winning a seat on the Ann Arbor, Michigan City Council.
Who is Kathy Kozachenko?
This 1912 strike, prompted by a shorter work week and pay cut for women, was begun by immigrant women in Lawrence, Massachusetts and ended with 23,000 men, women, and children on strike.
What is the Lawrence Textile (Bread and Roses) strike?