Subcategories - Human Rights

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