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1971

Rebecca Horn, Moveable Shoulder Extensions (Bewegliche Schulterstäbe)

2017

Antonia Wright, Under the Water Was Sand, The Rocks, Miles of Rocks, Then Fire

Adrian Piper, Catalysis IV

2001 – 2002 Ana Teresa Fernández, Of Bodies 1976 Allora & Calzadilla, Land Mark and Borders 1 ( , , (Foot Prints) #10 documentation) Silueta Series 2019 Saskia Jordá, Radius 1979 1971 – 73 Lotty Rosenfeld, Una milla , The Wonder de cruces sobre el pavimento 2006 2015 of It All, from The King of (A mile of crosses on the pavement) Angela Ellsworth, Is This the Place Sarah Cameron Sunde, 36.5 / Solana Beach North Sea, Katwijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands 2010 Maria Hupfield, The One Who Keeps On Giving 1982 Marina Abramovic´, Agnes Denes, Wheatfield— 1976 1980 1997 2001 – 2006 Looking at the Mountains from 1977 Beth Ames Swartz, The Red A Confrontation: Battery Park Francis Alÿs, Paradox of Praxis 1 1973 , Abrundung II Pope.L, The Great White Way: the series Back to Simplicity and Leslie Labowitz, Sea #1 (from the series Landfill, Downtown — (Sometimes Doing Something 2005 , Washing, (Round Off II) 22 miles, 5 years, 1 street 1970 In Mourning and in Rage Revisited, Ten Sites) With Financial Center Leads to Nothing) Christian Philipp Müller, 2562 km Tracks, Maintenance: Outside (Segment #1: December 29, 2001) 2013 Bonnie Ora Sherk, Sitting Still II Zhou Tao, After Reality

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1969 Earth February 1969 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University First American museum to show an exhibition of earth art. Artists include , Robert Morris, Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Dennis Oppenheim. — 2007 Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Forms Wack!: Art And The Feminist Revolution (Works – Concepts – Processes – Situations – Information) March 4 – July 16, 2007 March 22 – April 27, 1969 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA LA; traveled to Kunsthalle Bern; traveled to the ICA Washington, DC, PS1 in Queens, Vancouver : Harald Szeeman Curator: Cornelia Butler This exhibition showcases exemplary post-minimalist The first comprehensive effort to address and correct strategies, growing out of conceptual practices like Italian the bias against in ’s history, Arte Povera, , and . Includes artists 1994 – Ongoing focuses on work that emerged from the who are emerging in 1969, including and are now icons of 1989 movement of 1965 through the 1980s. Includes artists , including , Michael Heizer, Magiciens De La Terre do it: the compendium , , Judy , Jay Defeo, , Eva , Richard Serra, Lawrence Isa Genzken, , Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujin, Various locations and formats Weiner, and Barry Flanagan. 1971 May 18 – August 14, 1989 , , , Curator: 1966 publishes Why Have There Been No Centre Georges Pompidou and La Grande Halle, , and Lygia Clark. Great Women Artists? Parc de la Villette, , The exhibition’s works include a set of artist-produced Primary Structures: — 1969 – 70 Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin Younger American And British Sculptors instructions that can be carried out by anyone, any time. Michael Heizer, Double Negative Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years Of Art And 1976 The intent of this exhibition is to counteract the The instructions are also realized as an object or event. THE FEMINIST, ENVIRONMENTAL, April 27 – June 12, 1966 1970 1992 – 1995 Art critic Linda Nochlin (author of Why Have There ethnocentricity of modern , and includes an do it: the compendium compiles all of the instructions Museum of Fine , 2007 The Jewish Museum, New York Been No Great Women Artists?) and fellow art historian inSITE produced until 2013 by participating artists, including 1996 Information equal number of artworks from Africa, Asia, Latin America, — 2009 – 2011 Curator: Kynaston McShine organize the first international written contributions by , Damien Ortega, 1972 and Australia as well as the and Europe. 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000 –1, and 2005 Sexual Politics: ’s In THE FEMINIST, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND LAND ART MOVEMENTS: July 2 – September 20, 1970 female-only exhibition Women Artists: 1550 – 1950 to , , Marina Abramovic´, Liam Gillick, Global Elles This exhibition introduces Minimal art to American 1975 Alongside globally-recognized Western artists, who are Various sites in Tijuana, and San Diego, Feminist Art History , New York showcase 400 years’ worth of work that has been Douglas Gordon, and . The ongoing audiences. It features the work of seminal American and Artists Judy Chicago and organize and secure in their status within art history, such as Alighiero : Committee; Jessica Bradley, Olivier Debroise, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, 2009 – 11 Curator: Kynaston McShine Women Here And Now largely unrecognized. show exemplifies the process-based, collaborative, and UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, 1996 British artists, including Tony Smith, Gerald Laing, Carl convert a 17-room, 75-year-old dilapidated mansion Boetti, , Daniel Spoerri, Mario Merz, Ivo Mesquita, Sally Yard Museum, 2007 Curator: Camille Morineau 2012 AND LAND ART MOVEMENTS: ARTIST-LED EXHIBITIONS, 1985 decentralized nature of art of the 20th century. Curated by Amelia Jones Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt. Perhaps the first critical survey of in in the area into a venue for women artists to August 29, 1975 and , lesser-known artists from other 1998 — 1974 This exhibition brings artists from all over the world to the — The Pompidou fills its galleries with only women artists. Doin’ It In Public, Feminism And Art At The Woman’s — America. Many of the works in the show require audience produce and display on-site installations and . East Hampton, NY The Guerilla Girls, a group of women activists who are countries and like Kane Kwei, Mike Chukwukelu, Marina Abramovic´, border region and focuses on performance work. inSITE Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, The Weather Report Show The exhibition represents 200 artists and exhibits 500 works, Building participation or activation. Includes works by , is a separate venue for women to counteract First performance of Interior Scroll, by Carolee Schneemann 1977 best known for speaking out against and racism and Chéri Samba, to name a few. ICONIC ARTWORKS, AND Yoko Ono, Cut Piece (performance) Walter de Maria, shows the potential for the contemporary exhibition to Bad Girls (Parts I and II) 1995 1949 – 1979 2005 and becomes one of the largest women’s ARTIST-LED EXHIBITIONS, Daniel Buren, Art & Language, Jan Dibbets, Ed Ruscha, the established museum system’s disregard for women in the artworld, is formed. — Boulder Art Museum, 2007 Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Schneeman makes the point that only a woman can efficaciously and sincerely engage with political issues New Museum, NY, 1994 in history. Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall, and Dennis Oppenheim. artists. — Reconsidering the Art Object: 1965 – 1975 MOCA LA, 1998 Marina Abramovic´, with Skeleton (performance) Curator: Lucy Lippard Los Angeles, 2012 represent the female experience with this performance The Guerilla Girls: THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING A on an international scale. Includes artists Gary Simmons, Curator: Marcia Tucker 2001 EVENTS AND ACTIVISM 1967 — — 1974 – 79 where she “gives birth” to a scroll by literally pulling it out 1978 – 80 1982 Andy Goldsworthy, Pebbles, broken and scraped white 1987 WOMAN ARTIST Lorna Simpson, and Nari Ward, among many others, MOCA LA, 1995 — The Green Museum is founded; an online virtual museum 2003 — Includes many ecological, ecofeminist, and environmental 2009 The first international exhibition that is exclusively ICONIC ARTWORKS, AND Richard Long, A Line Made by Walking Robert Smithson, , Some Living Women Artists/Last Supper Judy Chicago, Dinner Party from inside her body. Betty Beaumont, Ocean Landmark Joseph Beuys, with another stone , Untitled (I shop therefore I am) initiating projects in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, Curator: Ann Goldstein , My Bed of ecological and . , The Weather Project Clemson Clay, Nest artists, many of them are women. Chris Jordan, Midway: Message from the Gyre dedicated to feminist art from 1990 to present. California. EVENTS AND ACTIVISM

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The FDA approves the first oral Women Strike for — publishes The Feminine Mystique by Betty President Lyndon B. Johnson President Lyndon B. Johnson The National Organization for The SS Torrey Canyon spills an The Tet Offensive begins. The Stonewall Riots in NYC mark The first Earth Day is celebrated delivers “Address The Watergate scandal begins. Roe v. Wade: the Supreme Court President Nixon announces 1975 is named “International First Take Back the Night Harvey Milk, a Gay Rights The rainbow Gay Pride flag Three Mile Island: a of is elected Ronald Reagan is sworn in The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Astronaut becomes Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. EMILY’S List is founded with the The Challenger Space Shuttle President Reagan visits Mikhail Deaf Presidents Now march at TIME magazine forgoes its Man passes Rodney King is violently beaten Los Angeles Riots begin as a The World Trade Center President Bill Clinton delivers his Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. North Cape oil spill in Rhode President Clinton begins his The state of Maine repeals a Union and environmental Vermont passes HB487, George W. Bush is sworn in The No Child Left Behind Act is Grutter v. Bollinger: The Supreme The and County of President George W. Bush Massive anti-war demonstrations becomes the first California becomes the second The worst month (January) The United States Navy New York becomes the sixth Trayvon Martin, an unarmed President Obama begins his Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona Walter Scott, an unarmed A court settlement calls for 2.9 million people attend the The California Energy Commission contraceptive birth control for 50,000 women worldwide Silent Spring. This book reveals Friedan is published. This book (LBJ) declares the War on Poverty (LBJ) proclaims his Great Society Women (NOW), an American estimated 25-36 million gallons — the start of the Gay Liberation in schools and communities to the Women of America,” a — of the United States overturns his resignation, Vice President Women’s Year” by the marches held—the organization activist, is elected to the San is flown for the first time at a nuclear reactor and radioactive president. as the 40th President of the is dedicated in Washington, D.C., the first American woman Mondale in the 1984 presidential intent to fund campaigns for explodes 73 seconds after Gorbachev in , Gallaudet University leads to the of the Year issue for Planet of the Americans with Disabilities Act. by Los Angeles police officers— response to the acquittal of the is bombed. first State of the Union address, becomes first African American Island. second term. gay rights law that was passed activists join together for the which legalizes civil unions as the 43rd president. signed into law by President Bush. Court of the United States , California begins begins his second term. and a march down Broadway in female Speaker of the United state after Massachusetts in of the Great Recession sees announces that it will end the state to legalize same-sex Black 17-year-old boy, is fatally second term. vetoes a bill that would have Black man, is shot and killed the city of Cleveland, Ohio, Women’s March in opposition introduces its 2019 Building women in the United States. protest nuclear weapons and the harmful effects of the use examines the societal restraints in his first State of the Union plan during his State of the Union feminist organization, is founded of oil off the southwest coast Movement. across the United States. speech that recognizes issues state bans on abortion. Gerald Ford is sworn in as United Nations. and its marches were created Francisco Board of Supervisors. San Francisco Pride. leak occurs in Dauphin County, United States. with the names of more than in space. election. pro-choice Democratic women. launching, killing all seven people and challenges him to take down first deaf president in the history the Year. The endangered Earth the account is caught on tape four police officers involved in calling for health care reform, a to walk in space. in 1997. “Battle in Seattle” protests for same-sex couples. upholds affirmative action in issuing marriage licenses to NYC mark the third year of war in States House of Representatives. 2004 to legalize same-sex ban of women in submarines. marriage. allowed business owners to by a police officer in North to pay $6 million to the family to the inauguration of President Energy Efficiency Standards, The Florida Education Association Womanhouse—is the first public — — — — — — — — nearly 800,000 jobs lost; shot by George Zimmerman in — — United States involvement in of pesticides and is pivotal in placed on American women and address. address. The Great Society in Washington, D.C. of the United Kingdom. Becomes — — of sexism, misogyny, and racism. — president. — with the intent to address sexual, — . — 58,000 killed or missing in action — — — on board, including schoolteacher the Berlin Wall—famously stating of the university. issues function as a warning of and the officers are indicted. the Rodney King case. ban on assault weapons, and — — at World Trade Organization — university admissions. same-sex couples as an act of . — marriage after the state’s own the unemployment rate — — Sanford, Florida. The incident refuse to serve people who are Charleston, South Carolina. of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Donald Trump, making it the which requires all new homes to Southeast Asia. the United States Environmental is considered to be the beginning is a set of programs created one of the world’s worst oil spills. begins with a large-scale This address helps further exhibit of Feminist Art of the relationship, and domestic Government program, Superfund, during the conflict. with the NASA teacher in space “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down the declining state of the planet. President Bush signs the is sworn in as the first welfare reform. Supreme Court of the United Forced Abortion Condemnation meeting to challenge free trade. The Bush administration The United States Senate civil disobedience. The Kyoto Protocol goes into Supreme Court rules a previous Defense Secretary Leon Panetta LGBTQ based solely on their The officer, Michael Slager, boy who was shot and killed by single biggest protest in United be fitted with solar power in 2020. Greensboro sit-ins: four Black — — resignation of teachers to protest A group of Native Americans Kent State shootings: students CalArts . United States involvement in — The Vietnam War ends with the The first victims of the Hillside — is passed with the intent to The CDC reports that five gay A commission by the United Cesar Chavez delivers his The FDA approves a blood-test — Ryan White Care Act, a federally — — female Attorney General. Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth States rules against a law that Act is introduced to the United Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Republican candidate George W. withdraws United States blocks President Bush’s plan to — effect without the support of the — The United States House of rises to 7.8%. NASA announces that 2010 President Obama provides receives widespread attention lifts the ban upon women serving — Movement. of the women’s liberation to eliminate poverty and racial — women’s liberation. violence. — program, Christa McAuliffe. this wall!” — — — ban unconstitutional. religious beliefs. is charged with Scott’s murder. two police officers in November States history. It is the first state in the United — due to the racialized aspects and students from North Carolina Malcolm X delivers, “The Ballot The Black Panther Party is state funding of education. seize and occupy Alcatraz as gunned down by national guard — Vietnam comes to an end with The Combahee River Collective, Fall of Saigon. Strangler appear. Equal Rights Amendment fails to clean up contaminated and men in Los Angeles, California States Congress releases a speech, “What the Future for AIDS, this test is then used PEPCON disaster in Henderson, funded program for people Global Assembly of Women and The first World Oceans Day is — Amendment, becoming the last prevents any city, town, or States Congress. Services: The Supreme Court Bush defeats Democrat Al Gore support for the 1997 Kyoto authorize oil exploration in the Goodridge v. Department of United States and Australia. The Great American Boycott Representatives passes the will likely become the warmest temporary relief for illegal in combat. — movement. injustice. — — This is broadcasted on live TV. — — the lack of prosecution of — — 2014 after his toy gun was — States to enact such a law. Agricultural and Technical State President Eisenhower announces or the Bullet,” a speech that founded by Huey Newton and Howard University students This is the first state-wide a symbol of Native American while protesting the United the signing of the Paris Peace a Black feminist organization — be ratified. polluted sites. have a rare form of pneumonia— Congress passes the Nuclear report criticizing the internment Holds for Farm Workers and to screen all blood donations in Nevada: A major explosion at Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska with AIDS. the Environment is held in Miami, celebrated. President Clinton signs state to approve the abolition of county in Colorado from taking of the United States rules that in the 2000 presidential election. Protocol on the reduction of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Public Health: The Massachusetts Massachusetts legalizes takes place across the Matthew Shepard Act. It is the Barack Obama is sworn into year on record due to global immigrants who are students, — — — The first issue of Ms. Magazine is — “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is instituted Zimmerman. mistaken for a real one. — University hold a sit-in at a that the United States has Students for a Democratic urges African Americans to . protest the Vietnam War, the teacher’s strike in United States. activism. States' continued involvement is officially founded Accords. forms in Boston, Massachusetts. Toxic Substances Control Act — this is the first recognized case Waste Policy Act. of during Hispanics,” in San Francisco, the United States. An AIDS advocacy group AIDS an industrial solid-fuel rocket (11 mil gallons). — Florida, followed by Women’s — the Violence Against Women slavery. any legislative, executive, or federal laws banning on-the-job — greenhouse gases. — Supreme Judicial Court rules same-sex marriage due to United States as marchers first time that the House brings Barack Obama becomes the 2008 warming based on an analysis veterans, the elderly, crime Flint, Michigan switches its Protests in Baltimore, Maryland President Trump signs a series office as the 44th president. — published. Democrat Jimmy Carter in the United States military. — Boston Marathon bombing. segregated lunch counter in severed its ties with Cuba. Society release the Port Huron The Birmingham campaign exercise their right to vote while Malcolm X is assassinated in — ROTC program, and the draft, — — in the Vietnam War, more by American and Canadian — — is passed. of AIDS. WWII, stating that is was a California. — The United States Senate Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT plant causes damage extending — Congress for a Healthy Planet. Act of 1994. — judicial action to protect the sexual harassment also apply — anti-gay laws against same-sex the outcome from the state’s protest for immigration rights. a gay rights bill to the floor for Democratic Party nomination of temperature record data from victims, and those with family, water source to the Flint River. occur against the April 19 death of presidential memorandums The Supreme Court of the United — — becomes the 39th President Earth First! is a radical World Health Organization United Nations Conference on is elected to The Godless Americans March — Greensboro, NC. Months later — Statement, a manifesto that begins in March 1963 and also warning the government . declaring that “America is the specifically the Cambodia environmental activists. — “grave injustice.” approves a treaty that outlaws UP) is formed as a response to up to 10 miles away, including rights of LGBTQ people. when both parties are the marriage unconstitutional in Supreme Court ruling in the a vote. and is the first African American the Goddard Institute for Space including same-sex partners, Barack Obama becomes An ongoing Flint water crisis of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old The Department of Education allowing the federal government States, in a 5 – 4 ruling, upholds a The National Welfare Rights Howard University students The first draft lottery since WWII Bobby Riggs vs. : Coalition of Labor Union Women of the United States. environmental advocacy group President Reagan and Mikhail The Coalition for Environmentally removes homosexuality from Environment and Development Dozens of United States cities the United States Senate and Timothy , a 19-year-old on Washington brings together The Iowa Supreme Court in the same year, The F. W. critiques Policy and the is led by the Southern Christian that people may take arms in — Black man’s battleground.” Campaign. DDT, a synthetic organic — genocide after it was initially the disease devastating the Las Vegas’s McCarran same sex. Massachusetts. case of Goodridge v. Department presidential candidate for a major Studies. as part of immigration reform in the first sitting president of the The Boy Scouts of America results in up to 12,000 people Black man who died while in and Department of Justice to move forward with the law preventing employees from President F. Kennedy Organization is founded with the hold rallies, sit-ins, and protests, is held. A Battle of the Sexes tennis is created. founded with the intent to create President Reagan nominates Gorbachev meet for the first time Responsible Economics is formed its list of diseases. (also known as Rio Summit, hit record high temperatures, becomes the first First Lady African American, is shot by 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, unanimously agrees that denying Woolworth Company diner American political system’s Leadership Conference. This the fight for equality. — — compound used as an submitted by President Truman LGBTQ community. International Airport. — of Public Health. political party. — the United States. United States to announce lifts its longstanding ban with lead poisoning and 15 police custody. Maryland advise public school districts controversial Dakota Access filing class action lawsuits serves its first meal to a Black establishes the President’s failure is establishing campaign is organized to “Bloody Sunday”: Alabama premise to fight for the welfare ultimately shutting down the — match. King views the match as a revolutionary movement aimed the first woman, Sandra Day President Reagan initially in Geneva, Switzerland. in 1948. after the oil spill and creates the Earth Summit) is held in Rio de especially Chicago, Illinois and of the United States to win a police officer in Cincinnati, agnostics, and humanists in a same-sex couples the right to deaths from Legionnaires Governor Larry Hogan declares across the country to allow Pipeline and Keystone XL against their employers over pay Commission on the Status of — state troopers attack civil rights of people, particularly Anti-Vietnam War marches university in protest of the Women’s Strike for Equality insecticide, is banned in the an important event for Women’s at preserving the environment. O’Connor, to the Supreme Court proposes the Strategic Defense — — Valdez Principles, a system meant Janiero, Brazil. , . Many College student Matthew public office. Ohio, sparking riots in downtown mile-long parade down the — — An explosion occurs at the — support for gay marriage. on gay youth members. customer. international peace. call attention to integration — marry is unconstitutional. Iowa disease. Criminal indictments a state of emergency in the city transgender students to use Pipeline. and hour disputes. Redstockings, a radical women’s United States. — — Women to advise the president Students march through New rights demonstrators in Selma, women and children. happen across the nation. Vietnam War and the school’s takes place in NYC. Liberation and equality of the United States. O’Connor Initiative, a technology meant to Thousands of activists take Syringe Tide: first reports of to reward environmentally friendly — die in the Chicago Heat Wave Shepard is found tied to a Cincinnati from April 10 to April 12. National Mall. Martin Luther King Jr. and Democratic candidate Barack Deepwater Horizon oil rig, in the The United States Military — — efforts in Alabama. liberation group is founded. becomes the third state to allow against 15 people and five of and deploys the Maryland bathrooms that match their — — on women’s issues. York City and San Francisco, Alabama while they march — ROTC program—a sign of a — in sports. is appointed one month later, intercept missiles—the media Hands Across America— part in a National March on medical waste on beaches in behavior and punish behavior that of 1995. fence near Laramie, Wyoming. — posthumously Obama is elected and is the first Gulf of Mexico. The explosion officially ends the Don’t Ask, — same-sex marriage, and is the President Obama is reelected. Supreme Court of the United whom are charged with National Guard in response. gender identity, rather than — Bill Clinton is elected over The United States announces — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs California in May to protest the to the capital. more militant student activism. — in August. dubs it “Star Wars.” 6.5 million people form a human Washington to demand that the Greater New York area is harmful through investing or — His death becomes a symbol receive the Congressional African American president. kills 11 workers and causes the Don’t Tell policy. States strikes down Section 3 of President Trump signs the Antwon Rose Jr. a 17-year-old The National Mobilization The National Environmental George H. W. Bush in the 1992 9/11 terrorist attacks: Almost first state in the American — involuntary manslaughter. — the gender assigned to them that 3,500 American soldiers will from October 16 to October 28. Martin Luther King Jr. issues his Vietnam War. The marches are — — The Santa Barbara oil spill — — chain from NYC to Los Angeles, President Reagan address (including hypodermic needles withholding funds. of gay-bashing victims and Gold Medal. rig to sink. This environmental the Defense of Marriage Act as Energy Independence Executive African American man is President Kennedy establishes Committee to End War in Policy Act is enacted, requiring American Indian Movement presidential election. United States House of 3,000 people are killed in four Midwest to allow same-sex — at birth. be sent to Vietnam. This event begins with the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” some of the first large-scale occurs in the Santa Barbara California to raise money to fight the AIDS crisis. and syringes possibly infected — creates public reflection on — disaster is the largest in United A shooting at Sandy Hook unconstitutional, allowing legally The Supreme Court of the Order, intended to boost coal shot and killed in , the Peace Corps, a volunteer Student Nonviolent Coordinating Vietnam is established and Martin Luther King Jr. is federal agencies to evaluate their occupies Wounded Knee, MTV is launched on cable TV. STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger Representatives pass the suicide attacks at the World unions. — — discovery of Soviet missiles in a statement that defended the demonstrations. homelessness and hunger. with the AIDS virus) wash up homophobia in the United States history. Elementary school in Newton, Eric Garner, an African American United States hears arguments and other fossil fuel production Pennsylvania by police officer Channel. One of the largest in the — married gay couples to receive program that is meant to provide Committee (SNCC) activists holds large-scale demonstrations murdered in Memphis, environmental impact. South Dakota. — carries Guion S. Bluford, the first George H.W. Bush is sworn in as Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act Trade Center in New York City; George W. Bush is elected to Cuba. The United States nonviolent approach to racism — United States. — on the shore of Long Island. States. — Connecticut kills 27 people over 1,000 federal benefits and man is choked to death by police regarding the issue of whether 29-year-old Omar Mateen opens by rolling back Obama-era Michael Rosfeld. President Dwight D. Eisenhower social and economic assistance clash with police in Montgomery, in NYC and San Francisco, Tennessee. In the days following, — — African American astronaut, president. of 1995. in Arlington, a second term. establishes a naval blockade to and civil rights efforts. Later, more are discovered on — becomes (20 of the victims are children). officer Daniel Pantaleo in Staten the Constitution of the United fire at Pulse, a gay dance club policies on climate change and — — The first American test-tube baby privileges. signs the Civil Rights Act of to various nations abroad. Young men begin burning their Alabama on March 16. On March California. riots erupt in major cities. into space. In Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, — Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Proposition 8 in California, prevent further Soviet missiles — the shores of Coney Island, the third woman and the first Island, New York. Video footage States guarantees the right to in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 the environment. The Environmental Protection The American Psychiatric is born. — 1960 into law, which helps to — draft cards, another symbol of 17, almost 2,000 people hold a — — , a non- — the Supreme Court of the United President Clinton is impeached Pennsylvania. which eliminated the right of The United States announces it from being delivered to Cuba. It Agency is created by President Association removes Brooklyn and some parts of Tiananmen Square student Hispanic to serve on the of the event gains viral attention marriage to same-sex couples. people and leaving another 53 — obstruct discriminatory practices The Equal Pay Act is signed into protest against the Vietnam War. demonstration at the courthouse. government organization States finds that sexual by the United States House of same-sex couples to marry, George Zimmerman, the man will withdraw from the United The Bay of Pigs, a military is decided—after intense Loving v. Virginia: Supreme Court President Lyndon B. Johnson Nixon. homosexuality from its list President Reagan signs a bill New Jersey. protests. Supreme Court of the United and raises questions about — wounded. This attack surpasses in local voter registration polls by law by President Kennedy. — A federal judge rules that the harassment is a form of illegal Representatives after a sex is ruled unconstitutional. The Unite the Right rally, a Nations Human Rights Council. negotiations—that the Soviets environmental organization — States. charged with the fatal shooting police brutality and the use of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings invasion of Cuba sponsored of the United States declares (LBJ) signs the Civil Rights Act — of mental disorders. creating Martin Luther King, Jr. — introducing federal inspection. — Southern Christian Leadership job discrimination. scandal with his intern. — Baltimore state’s attorney protest against the removal of — will dismantle their weapons and is founded in San Francisco, — of Trayvon Martin, is acquitted excessive force. as the deadliest mass shooting by the United States CIA, President LBJ signs the Civil that all state laws prohibiting of 1968—applies the Bill of — day, to be celebrated on the — Council (SCLC) has the right California. The Natural Resources Defense The first World AIDS Day is held The fall of the Berlin Wall. of all charges after a trial. Marilyn Mosby announces that the Robert E. Lee Monument and begins on April 17 and by return them to the . March on Washington is held Rights Act of 1964 into law, interracial marriage are Rights to many Native American third Monday of January. President Obama signs the Don’t — in United States history. Over 500 women are arrested to march to the capital on Council, an environmental The Endangered Species Act on December 1. President Obama signs the the six police officers involved other Confederate memorials John F. Kennedy wins the April 19 it fails. on August 28. The intent of the officially banning racial unconstitutional. tribes; prohibits discrimination Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal into law. — in Washington, D.C. during a March 18. advocacy group, is founded. is passed. — Matthew Shepard and James Michael Brown, an unarmed in the arrest of Freddie Gray, from public spaces, is held in 1960 presidential election over — march was to advocate for the segregation in the United States. — in housing. demonstration against the — Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention African American teenage boy, who died in their custody, will The United States military Charlottesville, Virginia. The — Richard Nixon. rights of African Americans. — — Student Environmental Action Act, which extends federal hate is killed by police officer Darren face criminal charges ranging officially lifts its ban on protest includes alt-right, white United States Immigration and The Freedom Riders—a group This is where Martin Luther King March 25—Martin Luther Thurgood Marshall is confirmed Coalition begins organizing in Customs Enforcement. — of civil rights activists protesting , a Mississippi as first African American Justice Students at The National Black Feminist crime laws to include crimes Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. from assault to manslaughter to transgender people serving nationalist, neo-Nazi, and Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” King Jr. and other activists Organization, a group working to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. — The Supreme Court of the the lack of enforcement of civil rights activists, speaks at the of the Supreme Court of the take over administration motivated by a victim’s gender, — second-degree homicide. openly in the armed forces. neo-Confederate groups. speech. successfully end their march address the issues of Black United States rules that Supreme Court cases ruling that Democratic National Convention, United States. buildings and shut down the sexual orientation, gender — — — Hundreds of thousands of people — to the capital of Alabama. women in America, is founded. identity, or disability. In response to several weeks of Louisiana’s segregation laws segregation of public housing challenging the all-white — university in protest of the demonstrate across the nations — protests following the fatal Former Olympian and reality TV A police officer shoots and kills A directive is signed by President — are unconstitutional and was unconstitutional—begin President Kennedy is Mississippi delegation. Vietnam War. shooting of an unarmed Black star Bruce Jenner, comes out as 32-year-old Philando Castile Trump that bans transgender against family separations. overturns them. riding buses in segregated cities assassinated in , Texas. Several hundred anti-Vietnam New York Radical Women, — an American radical feminist — Sacheen Littlefeather delivers teenager, police in Ferguson, a transgender woman and now during a routine traffic stop in military recruits. — — of the American South. Vice President Lyndon B. War protestors in Berkeley, speech at Academy Awards to Martin Luther King Jr. wins a organization, is formed by a United States presidential Missouri begin to wear body goes by Caitlyn. She becomes Falcon Heights, Minnesota, — Wildfires in northern California — Johnson is sworn in as the 36th California march to the draft bring attention back to Wounded cameras donated by two private the first transgender person to sparking further public outcry The Student Nonviolent President of the United States. Nobel Peace Prize for his board to burn their draft cards. group of young men who candidate Robert F. Kennedy is The United States Department of continue to rage across vast Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Construction of the Berlin Wall, nonviolent approach to had grown tired of male-led shot in Los Angeles, California; Knee standoff and is a symbol of security firms. appear on the cover of Vanity and protests regarding police swathes of land, destroying — protest for the American Indian Fair magazine. brutality. Justice reverses an Obama-era is founded as a reaction to the a boundary meant to physically challenging racism in America. civil rights movements. he dies the next day. — policy which used Title VII of the hundreds of structures and Movement. — — Greensboro and Nashville sit-ins. and ideologically separate East — Anti-Vietnam War protest is held at — — Supreme Court of the United Civil Rights Act to protect causing several deaths. This committee was formed and West Berlin, begins in The Pentagon. 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