- Vietnam War 1954 > 1975
- conflict between Communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam (Viet Cong)
- America allied with South Vietnam "the American War"
- manifests the Cold War + the Soviet Union (and their allies)
- African-American Civil Rights Movement > 1954 - 1968
- A Social movement whose goals were to end racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans.
- To secure legal recognition and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the Constitution and federal law.
- Acts of non-violence and civil disobedience in the American south.
- Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes
- Martin Luther King, Jr., recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Immigration + Nationality Services Act of 1965 - opening up entry of immigrants outside of European groups.
- Fair Housing Act of 1968, banning racially based discrimination
- African Americans begin to re-enter the political scene and American youth become inspired
- Hippy generation > youth dissatisfied with mainstream culture
- Wide spread protests, sit ins, organization of various groups
- Begins in North America then spreads (where it can) world wide.
- The movement broadened the debate to more inclusive range of issues including:
- sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights, de facto inequalities, political + official legal inequalities
- 60's > 70's American Feminist Movement
- American Gay Rights
- 1948 Alfred Kinsey, zoologist, sexologist, publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, revealing to the public that homosexuality is far more widespread than was commonly believed.
- 1955 The first lesbian-rights organization in the United States, the Daughters of Bilitis, was established in San Francisco in 1955.
- 1962 > Illinois becomes the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults in private.
- 1966 > The world's first the transgender organization, the National Transsexual Counseling Unit, was established in San Francisco.
- 1969 > The Stonewall riots June 27 in NYC Greenwich Village bar "The Stonewall Inn" organize a small number of activists into a widespread protest for equal rights.
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1957 Friedan conducts a survey of her classmates from Smith College,
turning the research into publication in 1963 - widely read t/o North America. The book is often credited as being one of the
sparks helped ignite the Second Wave of Feminism.
May 9, 1960 the first Birth Control pill distribution
TIME, June 20, 1960 "The Suburban Wife, an American Phenomena"
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JFK's victory for Presidency, November 10, 1960
NOW > National Organization for Women founded in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 1966
first Moon Landing : July 20, 1969
1970's
1973 Roe vs. Wade > Roe v. Wade reached the Supreme Court on appeal in 1970.
On Jan. 22, 1973 The Supreme Court decision was made that deemed abortion a right under the United States Constitution.
Vietnam War 1954 > 1975 ENDS!
Post Structuralist theory
Post Modernist theory, thought, practice (Frederick Jameson, 1976)
1980's
postmodernist theory, thought and practice
A new community property law became law in Louisiana, depriving Louisiana husbands of their status as "head and master" of the household. 1980
On Feb. 05, 1980 a bill to create a Women's Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY, was introduced in the U.S. Congress. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton Foundation backed passage of the bill, which was proposed following a study by the National Park Service.
On October 5, 1980 over 90,000 supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment converged on Chicago's Grant Park for what was called the largest march in Chicago's history and the largest gathering in support of the ERA ever in the state of Illinois. Marchers came from every state of the union and represented over 300 organizations and delegations. The massive event was conceived and coordinated by NOW. Mayor Jane Byrne, the first woman mayor of Chicago, addressed the crowd, together with Jessie Jackson, Ellie Smeal, TV celebrity Phil Donahue, and Marlo Thomas.
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