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This event was a series of spontaneous demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969. A violent riot broke out outside of a gay bar between police and people inside the bar. Essentially this event represents the struggles for the LGBT community and how they were forced to disguise their sexuality.

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Many large farm corporations took advantage of Latin american laborers. They were forced to work long hours in the hot sun for very little money. Ultimately, Cesar Chavez went on strike along with the Latino farm workers. In addition to the strike, a boycott of table grapes was initiated, which spread throughout the United States and other countries.

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the conviction of an agricultural laborer, Pete Hernandez, for murder should be overturned because Mexican Americans had been barred from participating in both the jury that indicted him and the jury that convicted him. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to all racial and ethnic groups facing discrimination, effectively broadening civil rights laws to include Hispanics and all other non-whites

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This was a landmark United States Supreme Court civil rights case in which the Court held that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because they are gay or transgender.

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She was black, queer, and trans - and fearlessly advocated for her rights and the rights of the LGBTQ community at a time when doing so put her safety in jeopardy. Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement in the U.S.

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People who are LGBT are being arrested for simply being open about their sexual orientations and fired for being open at their jobs.

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Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist. Dolores Huerta was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers

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Latin American immigrants and workers in the U.S. are working in difficult conditions as laborers and experiencing very poor pay, threats to their citizenship, and intimidation.

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Women faced many obstacles when fighting for equal pay. Many people saw them as inferior to men because they had to care for the children and some thought they should not be working at all. The pay gap today is still relatively large even with the Equal Pay Act. For example, in 2020 women earned 81 cents for every dollar earned by a man.

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One of the key activists in the fight for equal pay was Esther Peterson. In 1944, she became the very first lobbyist for the National Labor Relations Board, which started her path as a labor activist

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This was a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.

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Women are beginning to leave the household norm and instead work in corporate and other white-collar jobs. Unfortunately, they are being treated as lessers to men, being intimidated or treated differently, being paid less, and still expected to take care of the family.

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Ultimately what was written as laws and what happened in society were two completely different things. For example, even if interracial or homosexual couples were legal, they were still looked down upon in everyday life. Some lost their connections with family and received derogatory comments in public.

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In the fall of 1965, Adrian Ravarour and Billy Garrison founded Vanguard, an LGBT gay liberation youth organization in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, California. He advocated for the equal treatment of LGBT members and discouraged discrimination against homosexual couples.

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This was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Interracial and non-heterosexual relationships are a serious taboo and even illegal in many states. Certain marriage laws prevent the government licensing of certificates to interracial couples and there are no states that allow licenses being issues to LGBT couples.

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This was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court holding that the Commerce Clause gave the U.S. Congress power to force private businesses to abide by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodations. Ultimately no public facility could deny someone based on race.

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She was an African american woman that advocated for the equal treatment of African Americans. She sat in the front of the bus and refused to move so she was arrested.

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In southern states these laws prevailed in every aspect of life, where two thirds of all African Americans lived in 1950. Racial segregation and economic exploitation defined the lives of the majority of African Americans the postwar decades. They were forced to have different school, water fountains, rail cars, etc.

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Since Plessy V. Ferguson there has been widespread segregation and discrimination in public facilities like transportation, restaurants, and bathrooms. The segregated places are clearly not equal even though they are separate.

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Red lining and race divided neighborhoods contributed to the systematic racism in America. For example, white and black communities were separated and it became very difficult for black individuals to get decent jobs and break free from poverty. This same concept can be seen today as well.

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He was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. He spoke out against discrimination that would prohibit African Americans from getting a job. He was present when Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with MLK.

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This outlawed discrimination in employment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and sex

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Throughout the country African Americans and LGBT are being discriminated against in employment opportunities and even housing just because of their skin color or sexual orientation. There are no laws preventing such practices.

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The ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson was that the races were to remain separate but equal. This phrase was an extreme obstacle to overcome because it took multiple court cases such as Baily V Patterson and Heart V Atlanta to come to the conclusion that they were not equal.

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He was a black american civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." This included his efforts to desegregate schools.

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Little girl Brown was forced to walk further in dangerous parts of towns to reach her black school when the white school was down the road. The white school refused her from joining so her dad sued and the case reached the Supreme Court. The court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

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Plessy V. Ferguson has nationally allowed states to segregate school systems to keep races to their own schools. However, the schools are clearly not equal, which prevents Black communities from having equal opportunities.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent advocate for black civil rights. He testified against literacy tests preventing black Americans to cast their vote. Ultimately, president Johnson signed the Voting Act of 1965, with MLK along with other civil rights leaders present at the ceremony.

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Although, blacks were legally aloud to vote, predominantly southern states established obstacles that made it so that they couldn't vote. For example, eligible black voters couldn't read because they were not allowed in school or they could not afford to pay the poll taxes.

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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. The 24th amendment also abolished poll taxes.

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Although the 15th Amendment regulates that all states must allow citizens of all races to vote, different states have created laws that have directly kept African Americans from voting including poll taxes and literacy tests.