Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope, the bill carried symbolic importance in the widening political struggle over the abortion issue, and proponents took their loss with a vow to keep the president's feet to the fire. But Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) called it "a decisive victory for the pro-life movement...
Yael Dayan, novelist, journalist and the daughter of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, and Hanan Mikhael-Ashrawi, a crusader for equal rights for women in the Palestinian movement, debated the best process to achieve peace between Palestinians and Israelis in front of a large audience at the Agassiz Theatre...
...everyone knows that the objections of the masters and not of the Class of '92 derailed last year's movement for randomization. There is little reason to believe that the current first-year petition will be more than an "empty show of freedom...
Even where Smith's lament seemed most apt, it was never entirely true. For much of the 1950s, the civil rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...
...Lewis said both communities share a common goal to "support leaders with moral vision like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez," both of whom he worked with during the Civil Rights Movement...