Primary Sources:

Twentienth Century

Read an interview with Rosa Parks from 1995 in which she recalls her 1955 bus ride, her motivations, and her perspective 40 years later at http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1.  

See pictures of women in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s at http://www.ualr.edu/~arwomen/law.htm. 

Look at more photographs of the Civil Rights Movements at http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/widow.shtml,  http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/vote.shtml, and  http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/klan.shtml. 

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sex in employment.  Read the text of Title VII at  http://www.dol.gov/dol/oasam/public/regs/statutes/2000e-16.htm. 

Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in the operation of public educational institutions.  Read the text of the law at http://www.dol.gov/dol/oasam/public/regs/statutes/titleix.htm. 

Griswold vs. Connecticut legalized contraceptives for married couples.  Read the transcribed 1965 oral arguments of the Supreme Court case at http://members.aol.com/abtrbng2/oa/griswoldoa.htm. 

Professional women created the National Organization for Women in 1966.  Read the original Statement of Purpose at http://www.now.org/history/purpos66.html. 

Read the “herstory” of Ms. Magazine to learn about the early days of the influential feminist publication and the position of the women’s movement in 1971.  Also, see an early cover featuring Wonder Woman at http://www.msmagazine.com/. 

Read the 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion in the United States at http://hometown.aol.com/abtrbng/index.htm. 

Taylor vs. Louisiana denied the states the right to exclude women from juries.  Review the 1975 Supreme Court case at http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/historic/query=[group+419+u!2Es!2E+522!3A]^[group+citemenu!3A]^[level+case+citation!3A]^[group+notes!3A]/doc/{@1}/hit_headings/words=4/hits_only?.  

Look at the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, an amendment to Title VII at http://www.eeoc.gov/35th/thelaw/pregnancy_discrimination-1978.html.  It prohibits employers from discriminating against pregnant women in hiring, maternity leave, health insurance, and fringe benefits.

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