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Little Rock nine
White mobs were there to protest because they didn’t want any Blacks in their school and the reporters were there in support of the Blacks. White mobs that were waiting for the nine students beat up black reporters because they didn’t want them near their school. When the mob heard the nine students had entered the school they went crazy. -
Barbara Jordan
Feminist Barbara Jordan was elected to the Texas Senate. She was the first African-American woman in the Texas legislature.
-Fought for Nixon's impeachment
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Lincoln Memorial
More than 100,000 thousand anti-vietnam war protestors marched in the Lincoln Memorial. 30,000 of them continued on the march on the Pentagon. -
Stockholm Conference
The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, which is also known as the Stockholm conference was an international conference held by the United Nations in Stockholm, Sweden in during June in 1972. It was the UN’s first major conference on global environmental issues and marked a turning point in the development of modern environmental politics. A declaration was made containing 26 principles concerning the environment and its development. -
ALRA
California passes the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), the first law recognizing the rights of farmworkers to organize and bargain collectively. The UFW wins a majority of elections
