Categories - Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Algeria Gains Independence
- Algeria Holds its First Free Multiparty Elections
- Alice Paul
- Alien Land Laws
- All-Pueblo Council
- AME Church Is Founded
- American Anti-Slavery Society Is Founded
- The American Civil Liberties Union is Founded
- American Civil War
- American Indian Defense Association
- American Indian Higher Education Consortium
- American Indian Policy Review Commission
- American Indian Religious Freedom Act
- American Revolution
- American Scientists Campaign Against Nuclear Testing
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Amin Regime Terrorizes Uganda
- Amistad Slave Revolt
- Amnesty International Exposes Cruelty of Death Penalty
- Amnesty International Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Amnesty International Is Founded
- Amnesty International Starts Program to Prevent Torture
- Amritsar Massacre
- Andrei Sakharov
- Aneurin Bevan
- Anglo-Irish War
- Angolan Government Shares Power with UNITA Rebels
- Animal Welfare Act Regulates Use of Animals in Research
- Anna Howard Shaw
- Anne Frank
- Annie Besant
- Anti-Defamation League Is Founded
- Appearance of the “False Dmitry”
- An APA Report Discusses the Homeless Mentally Ill
- Arab Terrorists Kill Eleven Israeli Athletes at Munich Olympics
- Arab Terrorists Murder Israelis at Munich Olympics
- Argentina Conducts “Dirty War” Against Leftists
- Argentine Leaders Are Convicted of Human Rights Violations
- Arias Sánchez Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Armenian Genocide
- Armenians Suffer Genocide During World War I
- Arria the Younger
- ASCAP Forms to Protect Writers and Publishers of Music
- ASCAP Is Founded to Protect Musicians’ Rights
- Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
- Aspasia of Miletus
- Assassinations of King and Kennedy
- The Atlantic Charter Declares a Postwar Right of Self-Determination
- Atrocities Against Congolese Laborers Are Exposed
- Attica State Prison Riots
