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...members of the group voiced concern that the CIA and FBI are organizations that have historically discriminated against blacks. Former BMF president Isaac J. Weiler ’02, a participant in the e-mail discussion, cited the FBI’s dealings with the Black Panthers during the 1960s as one example...
...unconventional nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
...Yale professor David Mayhew, an expert in national politics, writes in an e-mail. “A bit of it is family: A Bush like an Adams or a Taft can procreate. Perhaps there was some nontrivial environmental thing going on in New Haven in the 1960s and 1970s. Who knows? Perhaps it is a fluke...
...sure, it is no secret that women of all races have been historically barred from acceptance within the careers of business, law, journalism or public service. It was not until the 1960s, 70s and 80s that serious social and legal pushes forced the American workplace to progress in terms of gender politics. In 1963, the Equal Pay Act was passed, requiring equal wages for equal work. And it wasn’t even until1980, that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finally affirmed sexual harassment as an unlawful employment practice...
...best peripheral and at worst divisive. The tragic irony of the separate treatment of ‘black issues’ and ‘women’s issues’ is that each group’s struggle for recognition followed similar tracks. Just as the 1960s represented a watershed era in the Civil Rights movement, 1970s proved a critical era for women’s struggle for full citizenship—each appealing to mass demonstrations and appeals to the Supreme Court, to amplify their impact...