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2 hours ago · NORMANDY — President Biden will observe the 80th anniversary of D-Day on the beaches of Normandy on Thursday by asserting that the allied effort to stand up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is ...
The report examines the global trends and challenges of freedom and democracy over the past five decades, highlighting the achievements and setbacks of civil society and governments. It covers topics such as war, coups, media freedom, elections, and human rights violations.
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Bill of Rights
- The Abolition of Slavery
- ‘Yearning to Breathe Free’— The Era of Immigration
- The 19th Amendment
- D-Day
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Freedom to Marry
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More than a year after fighting broke out between colonial militia and British forces in April 1775, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia finally decided to declare the independence of the North American colonies. The main goal of the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was to present the colonists’ grievances against Great Br...
After several failed attempts at creating a government, a 1787 convention is called to draft a new legal system for the United States. This new Constitution provides for increased federal authority while still protecting the basic rights of its citizens. In the earliest years of the new nation, many people opposed the Constitution because they thou...
By 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had become convinced that freeing the South’s slaves was critical to the Union effort to win the Civil War. Though the Emancipation Proclamation, which took effect the following year, applied only to the slaves in Confederate states, Lincoln made it clear in his historic Gettysburg Address that the Union now fough...
“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” the poet Emma Lazarus imagined the Statue of Liberty saying to the world in her famous sonnet “The New Colossus.” From 1880 to 1920, more than 20 million immigrantscame to the United States seeking freedom and new opportunity. Whether they were fleeing religious persecuti...
Some 72 years after the national women’s rights movement launched at Seneca Falls, ratification of the 19th Amendmentin 1920 finally gave women the right to vote. Despite setbacks and internal divisions in the decades after the Civil War, the suffrage movement gained momentum in the early 20th century, as protesters were arrested, imprisoned and in...
“People of western Europe…the hour of your liberation is approaching,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, announced in a speech broadcast via radio on June 6, 1944. By the end of that day, some 156,000 American, British and Canadians forces had landed simultaneously on five beachheads in northern Fran...
After years of struggle and setbacks, advocates for equality celebrate the passage of sweeping legislation that prohibits racial discrimination. In 1963, as civil rights activists protesting segregation and voting restriction across the South met with violent opposition, and hundreds of thousands of people marched on Washington to demand “Jobs and ...
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling declaring that the Constitution guarantees to same-sex couples the freedom to marry. The case that led to this milestone achievement for the gay rights movement, Obergefell v. Hodges, began when same-sex couples sued in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, declaring that their states’ ...
Learn how the United States has made progress toward ensuring freedom and equality for its citizens in various historical moments, from the Declaration of Independence to the Freedom to Marry ruling. Explore the challenges, achievements and controversies of each milestone in the American journey.
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- Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech to a crowd of approximately 7,000 people on May 17, 1967, at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, California.
- Malcolm X. In stark contrast to King's championing of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience, Malcolm X famously preached defending oneself "by any means necessary," thus sparking what many considered to be a radicalized, potentially violent version of the civil rights movement.
- Rosa Parks. Often referred to as "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks, a seamstress, put a spotlight on racial injustice when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955.
- John Lewis. John Lewis, who's served as a Georgia congressman since 1986, learned about nonviolent protest while studying at Nashville's American Baptist Theological Seminary and went on to organize sit-ins at segregated lunch counters.
1 day ago · In Normandy, US President Joe Biden says the fight for Ukraine echoes the struggle for freedom on the beaches on D-Day. Earlier, King Charles talks of the "supreme test" of D-Day, and the ...
May 27, 2024 · Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, co-hosts of NPR's history show Throughline, bring us a story about Mandela's early involvement with the ANC and the choices he made in his fight for freedom ...
As a lethal pandemic, economic and physical insecurity, and violent conflict ravaged the world, democracy’s defenders sustained heavy new losses in their struggle against authoritarian foes, shifting the international balance in favor of tyranny.
