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1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84

1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89

1997 Edison International purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M

1996 Ford buys rights to named Detroit domed stadium for $40 million

1996 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21

1996 Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61

1996 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86

1996 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84

1994 Court upholds NBA salary cap and draft rights

1994 Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights

1994 Richard Jacobs buys naming rights to Indians new ball park at Gateway for $13.8 million (renamed Jacobs Field)

1993 Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney Kings civil rights

1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California

1992 4 cops in Rodney King beating case indicted on civil rights charge

1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights

1991 Marietta Tree, ambassador (U.N. Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74

1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64

1990 Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany

1990 European court rules pension rights for both men and women

1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies

1990 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies

1990 Civil Rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln

1990 FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs

1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights

1989 Reverend Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst

1988 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London

1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights

1988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics

1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of Commission on Civil Rights (1981-88) dies

1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission assassinated by death squads

1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington

1987 Bayard Rustin, U.S. civil rights activist, dies at 77

1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president

1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended

1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended by Senate by 85-8 vote

1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days

1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67

1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90

1978 Columbia Pictures pays $9.5 million for movie rights to "Annie"

1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law

1977 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason

1977 President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague

1977 Czechoslovakian intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77

1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99

1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)

1975 David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon

1975 Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations

1975 NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time

1974 Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist

1974 John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights

1973 ABC announces it obtained TV rights for 1976 Olympics

1973 U.S. Supreme Court approves equal rights to females in military

1972 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement, dies at 87

1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)

1971 U.S. canal rights in Nicaragua and rights to Corn Islands expire

1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee

1970 Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies

1968 President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss

1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights

1966 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights

1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes

1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year

1965 Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks

1965 Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes

1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered

1965 James Reeb, U.S. vicar/civil rights activist, murdered

1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies of injuries

1964 Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam

1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate

1964 Andrew Goodman, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 20

1964 James Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist, murdered at 21

1964 Michael Schwerner, U.S. civil rights activist, murder at 21

1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27

1964 Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked

1964 U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights

1964 Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million

1964 CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million

1964 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes

1963 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C.

1963 NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000

1961 75,000 Flemings demand equal rights and Flemish language in Belgium

1961 Spain accept equal rights for men and women

1961 Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82

1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960

1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth

1959 U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights

1959 Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

1957 President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1957 U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond speaks 24hrs 27m against civil rights

1957 Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957

1957 Strom Thurmond, Senator-D-South Carolina, ends 24 hour filibuster against civil rights

1957 Senator Strom Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill

1957 Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)

1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss

1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81

1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79

1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90

1954 European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million

1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)

1950 Anthony Lloyd, born in England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central, gay rights supporter, voted against the Iraq War and against renewal of the Trident Nuclear Missile System

1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C.

1949 Bertha Knox Gilkey, welfare and tenament rights for urban women

1948 U.N. General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948 American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights

1948 U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights

1948 President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

1948 Anatoly Shcharansky, Soviet human rights activist

1947 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)

1947 Radio rights for the World Series sell for $475,000 for 3 years

1946 President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808

1946 British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown

1945 Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series sponsor since 1934, pay $100,000 annually

1945 Laura Lee, Rundless, singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs "GI Bill of Rights", Servicemen's Readjustment Act

1943 Andrew Goodman, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1943 Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964

1943 James Earl Chaney, U.S. civil rights activist

1943 U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China

1941 Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader

1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

1939 Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late

1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews

1938 Marian Ackerman, women's rights advocacy administrator

1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights

1935 Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr., civil rights activist, National Urban League

1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul

1934 Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000

1930 Clarence M Pendleton, Jr., chairman of U.S. comm on Civil Rights, 1981-88

1930 White woman win voting rights in South Africa

1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist

1928 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy

1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader

1926 Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist, National Welfare Rights Association

1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership

1925 Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta

1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians

1925 Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader

1924 Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist, NAACP

1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace

1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 New rules of language assumed, equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium

1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75

1920 19th amendment acknowledges women's rights

1920 James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader

1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit

1918 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, Uruguayan politician/human rights worker

1915 Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey

1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union and strike rights)

1914 U.S., Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to U.S.

1914 Kenneth B Clark, Canal Zone, civil rights activist, Dark Ghetto

1914 Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights

1913 Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor

1912 China votes for universal human rights

1912 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader

1911 Red Tuesday-20,000 protest for universal rights

1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights

1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader

1910 Tancredo Neves, Civil rights activist

1909 Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist

1908 World congress for Woman's rights opens in Amsterdam

1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate

1908 Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan

1907 Norway restricts woman's voting rights

1906 French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia

1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama

1901 Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights

1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP

1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]

1898 Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator

1896 Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies

1896 Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights

1893 U.S. no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea

1891 John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights

1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

1889 Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter

1888 East Africa Company political and commercial rights

1887 U.S. receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1887 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71

1886 1st Civil Rights Act passes

1885 Kurt Hiller, born in Berlin, Jewish, pacifist, socialist, writer, Oranienburg concentration camp survivor, led the German homosexual rights movement

1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for President and Vice President

1883 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96

1883 Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

1882 Georgine M "May" Basting, actress, Hostage Rights of Aemstel

1880 Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies

1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players

1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins

1875 Congress passes Civil Rights Act; invalidated by Supreme Court, 1883

1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63

1872 Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)

1870 Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1868 W. E. B. Du Bois, born in Massachusetts, civil rights writer, Souls of Black Folk

1867 Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader

1866 1st Civil Rights Bill passes

1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights

1866 House passes 14th Amendment (Civil rights for blacks)

1866 American Equal Rights Association forms

1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment

1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist

1862 Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], U.S. civil rights activist

1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader

1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked

1857 Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist

1853 Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate and activist

1851 Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass

1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100

1848 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York

1848 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)

1848 Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention

1843 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies

1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed

1832 Mary Edwards Walker, U.S., doctor/women's rights leader

1824 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause

1817 Paul Cuffe, civil rights activist (Sierre Leone), dies at 58

1808 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw

1796 General Salicetti orders equal rights for Jews of Bologna Italy

1792 Sarah Moore Grimke, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate

1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval

1789 New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights

1789 Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)

1789 French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen"

1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno

1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights

1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights, Philadelphia

1774 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart

1768 William Wallace, Scottish mathematician, Rights of Wallace

1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties

1689 English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution

1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights

1673 Isaac Sweers, Dutch fleet admiral/Civil rights activist, dies at 51

1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

1653 Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49

1644 Johan Mauritius van Nassau resigns as head of Civil rights activists

1638 Dutch Premier Van Joost speaks of "Hostage rights of Aemstel"

1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area

1629 Peace of Ales: Rights of French huguenots limited

1628 English king Charles I accepts Petition of Rights

1624 Jacob Willekens and Piet Heyn conquer Salvador, Civil rights activist

1622 Isaac Sweers, Dutch Admiral/general/Civil rights activist

1598 Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots

1577 Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots

1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights

1563 Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots

1540 Emperor Karel deprives city Gent definitive rights/privileges

1535 English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights

1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights

953 Otto I the Great gives Utrecht fishing rights


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