Achievements and Setbacks - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A new Party for a new century. The Labour Party was created in 1900: a new party for a new century. Its formation was the result of many years of struggle by working class people, trade unionists and socialists, united by the goal of working class voices represented in British Parliament.
The Cursillo Movement within the Catholic Church emerges in the Yakima Valley. The purpose is to engage in social action and encourage participation in church life. The Mexican American Youth Organization(MAYO) is formed on college campuses in Texas after the first chapter is born at St. Mary's College in San Antonio.
The American Chicano Movement. When we think about social movements in the U.S., one time period probably immediately comes to mind: the 1960s. This was an important time for social movements as.
A federal fugitive slave law is enacted, providing for the return slaves who had escaped and crossed state lines. Top. 1800: Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved African-American blacksmith, organizes a slave revolt intending to march on Richmond, Virginia.The conspiracy is uncovered, and Prosser and a number of the rebels are hanged. Virginia's slave laws are consequently tightened.
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American writer best known as the author of the critically acclaimed novel’ The Color Purple’ which tells the story of a black woman who struggles against not just the racist white culture but also the patriarchal black culture.
Second Wave Feminism was a movement that began to take note of injustices dealing with wage equality, sexualization, civil rights, and also the way women were treated in the workplace. This is the point on every timeline of the feminist movement that people easily recognize.
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