By Series - Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series

  1. Congress Requires Cigarette Warning Labels
  2. Congress Responds to Demands of Persons with Disabilities
  3. Congress Votes to Admit Women to the Armed Services Academies
  4. Consumers Union of the United States Emerges
  5. CORE Stages a Sit-in in Chicago to Protest Segregation
  6. CORE Stages the “Journey of Reconciliation”
  7. Corporatism Comes to Paraguay and the Americas
  8. The Council of Federated Organizations Registers Blacks to Vote
  9. Cubans Flee to Florida and Receive Assistance
  10. Cyprus Gains Independence
  11. De Klerk Promises to Topple Apartheid Legislation
  12. The Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man Is Adopted
  13. The Defense of India Act Impedes the Freedom Struggle
  14. Discrimination in Accommodations is Forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court
  15. Dissident Writer Mihajlov Is Released from Prison
  16. Duvalier Takes Power in Haiti
  17. East Germans Flee to West to Escape Communist Regime
  18. East Timor Declares Independence but Is Annexed by Indonesia
  19. Easter Rebellion Fails to Win Irish Independence
  20. Egypt Attempts to Nationalize the Suez Canal
  21. Eichmann Is Tried for War Crimes
  22. Eisenhower Sends Troops to Little Rock, Arkansas
  23. El Salvador’s Military Massacres Civilians in La Matanza
  24. The Equal Pay Act Becomes Law
  25. The Equal Rights Amendment Passes Congress but Fails to be Ratified
  26. Ethiopian Revolution
  27. Ethnic Riots Erupt in Armenia
  28. Ethnic Violence Erupts in Yugoslavian Provinces
  29. The European Convention on Human Rights Is Signed
  30. The European Court of Human Rights Is Established
  31. European Court of Human Rights Rules on Mistreatment of Prisoners
  32. The European Social Charter Is Signed
  33. The Family Planning Services Act Extends Reproductive Rights
  34. FBI and CIA Interference in Civil Rights Movement Is Revealed
  35. Fiji’s Elected Government Is Ousted by the Military
  36. Finland Gains Independence from the Soviet Union
  37. Finland Grants Women Suffrage
  38. The First Female Conservative Rabbi Is Ordained
  39. The First Food Stamp Program Begins in Rochester, New York
  40. Ford Offers a Five-Dollar, Eight-Hour Workday
  41. Franklin D. Roosevelt Appoints Perkins as Secretary of Labor
  42. French Government Sinks Greenpeace Ship
  43. French Quell Algerian Nationalist Revolt
  44. Gandhi Leads a Noncooperation Movement
  45. Gandhi Leads the Salt March
  46. Geneva Convention Establishes Norms of Conduct in War
  47. Germany Uses Chemical Weapons in World War I
  48. Ghana Gains Independence
  49. Gideon v. Wainwright Establishes Defendants’ Right to an Attorney
  50. Gorbachev Agrees to Membership of a United Germany in NATO