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Hace 5 días · Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American woman who was arrested as a teenager in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman. Her protest was one of several by Black women challenging segregation on buses in the months before Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat.
Hace 4 días · Jane Addams (born September 6, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois, U.S.—died May 21, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) was an American social reformer and pacifist, co-winner (with Nicholas Murray Butler) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. She is probably best known as a co-founder of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America.
Hace 4 días · The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world.
Hace 2 días · "The movement emerged at a specific time and place, but its message is eternal and universal," says project creator Fedra Fateh, project creator. By Chiara Scipiotti contributor “Woman Life ...
Hace 1 día · The origins of the movement. While Milano’s tweet is largely recognized as the tipping point of the modern Me Too movement, it was not the origin of the phrase “me too” in the context of sexual abuse survivors.
Hace 15 horas · Florence Pugh chimed in on the free the nipple movement after she was cyberbullied and criticised for a sheer Valentino dress she wore in 2022. When asked about the backlash by Vogue, Pugh ...
Hace 2 días · Fannie Lou Hamer ( / ˈheɪmər /; née Townsend; October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977) was an American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
