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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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