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Susan B. Anthony: 5 Facts About the Legendary Women's Rights Pioneer
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOn this day in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Mass. The daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, Anthony went on to become a powerful voice for women's rights, a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and an activist in the anti-slavery and temperence movements. Surge Desk has five facts in honor of Anthony's 191st birthday. 1. She began her activism in the temperence movement After fifteen years as a schoolteacher, Anthony immersed herself in the temperence movement. In the late 1840s, after her family had settled in Rochester, she became involved with the Daughters of ...
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Is Back On, Indefinitely: Initial Reactions
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- The day before the critical midterm elections, the Obama administration has won its federal case to extend the freeze on the overturning of "don't ask, don't tell," which was ruled unconstitutional by another federal judge less than a month ago. What does it all mean? Under the previous ruling, the controversial policy of discharging openly gay servicemen and women was effectively arrested, with U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips twice maintaining that the military could no longer enforce it, despite an attempt by Obama administration lawyers to secure an emergency stay. As ...
Clinton, Palin, Steinem, Friedan: The Amazing Journey of Women In Our Lifetime
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThere are historical turning points that you recognize as you're living through them, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and then there are world-changing moments that only emerge in hindsight. Take the day Rep. Howard Smith of Virginia proposed that women as well as minorities should be protected against job discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He likely meant it as a joke, Gail Collins writes in her new book, never dreaming it would be adopted or enforced. But it was, and oh my, where it has led us. ...
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