Timeline: The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the fall of Roe v. Wade By Susan Milligan Senior Politics Writer March 10, 2023, at 3:53 p.m.

On January 21, 2017, the Women’s March on Washington, DC, drew a record-breaking public display of support for women’s rights and civil rights in a mass demonstration, estimated to be the ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or minimized in favor of male figures. From organizing boycotts to ...

Black women made MLK's March on Washington happen. Yet their voices went unheard. Black women have always been a crucial part of the civil rights struggle – not only as part of the masses and ...

Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who mobilised fellow women against the country's civil war, including by organising a sex strike, share the prize.

Here’s a look back at the history of the women’s liberation movement, which started as a modest meeting for voting rights and has since trekked toward equality in all areas of society.

The American mainstream media seems indifferent, underreports and in some cases is eerily silent about the growing anger that is fueling the women's civil-rights movement. This anger saw full ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

1868 July 9: The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S., including former slaves. But the amendment limits voting rights to male citizens.

This “first legislative victory for women’s rights sneaked in through the back door of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” the journalist Clara Bingham writes in “The Movement: How Women’s ...