Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott said that the study of women's history grew out of the feminist movement of the 1960s. During this time, women--partially stimulated by the Civil Rights movement--called for an end to subordination and demanded equal rights, legally, professionally and personally...
Evans says his book will focus on 1965 to 1977, the turbulent years when he was governor of Washington, overseeing years of Civil Rights strife Vietnam protests and pollution problems...
PRESIDENT Bush has only now begun to select a foreign policy team for Central America; Vice-President Quayle calls for "the elimination of human rights." Meanwhile in aid-dependent El Salvador two important initiatives--one toward the end of the eight-year civil war, another toward a new Central American peace--mark serious steps for regional autonomy...
...Party and got only 0.05% of the vote. Although he claims to have left the Klan in 1979, his home address serves as the local Klan office. He now heads the National Association for the Advancement of White People from the same location. While he professes to believe in "civil rights for all people," his new organization publishes an anti-Semitic newspaper (30,000 subscribers) that advocates restricting Jews to ethnic enclaves...
...busing to achieve school integration. In 1986 the Republican National Committee supported the purging of voting lists in Louisiana, ostensibly to eliminate residents who had moved or died but actually, as it conceded in an internal memo, to reduce black turnouts. Only recently, Reagan contended that some black civil rights leaders cling to profitable posts by claiming falsely that blacks are victims of discrimination...