Subcategories - Human Rights
- Commonwealth Created by Statute of Westminster
- Communists Raise the Berlin Wall
- Congress Enacts the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- Congress Enacts the Bilingual Education Act
- Congress Enacts the Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- Congress Establishes a Border Patrol
- Congress Extends Voting Rights Reforms
- Congress Formally Apologizes to Japanese Internees
- The Congress of Industrial Organizations Is Formed
- The Congress of Racial Equality Forms
- Congress Passes the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Congress Passes the Architectural Barriers Act
- Congress Passes the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
- Congress Passes the Civil Rights Act
- Congress Passes the Clean Air Act Amendments
- Congress Passes the Equal Employment Opportunity Act
- Congress Passes the Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act
- Congress Prohibits Immigration of Illiterates Over Age Sixteen
- Congress Ratifies the National Council on Indian Opportunity
- Congress Requires Bilingual Elections to Protect Minority Rights
- Congress Requires Cigarette Warning Labels
- Congress Responds to Demands of Persons with Disabilities
- Congress Votes to Admit Women to the Armed Services Academies
- Consumers Union of the United States Emerges
- CORE Stages a Sit-in in Chicago to Protest Segregation
- CORE Stages the “Journey of Reconciliation”
- Corporatism Comes to Paraguay and the Americas
- The Council of Federated Organizations Registers Blacks to Vote
- Cubans Flee to Florida and Receive Assistance
- Cyprus Gains Independence
- De Klerk Promises to Topple Apartheid Legislation
- Death of Stalin
- The Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man Is Adopted
- The Defense of India Act Impedes the Freedom Struggle
- Denmark Abolishes the Slave Trade
- Desmond Tutu
- Discrimination in Accommodations is Forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court
- Dissident Writer Mihajlov Is Released from Prison
- Dolores Huerta
- Dominique Pire
- Duvalier Takes Power in Haiti
- East Germans Flee to West to Escape Communist Regime
- East Timor Declares Independence but Is Annexed by Indonesia
- Easter Rebellion Fails to Win Irish Independence
- Egypt Attempts to Nationalize the Suez Canal
- Eichmann Is Tried for War Crimes
- Eisenhower Sends Troops to Little Rock, Arkansas
- El Salvador’s Military Massacres Civilians in La Matanza
- Elie Wiesel
