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eugene yates

American Photgraphs - 0 views

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#class #dustbowl #moma

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  • eugene yates on 07 Oct 13
     
    This site contains contains an array of information on design, art, and photography. As it relates to this class, I found the site to me helpful because it puts Evans work in the historical context of the Great Depression.
Jasmine Wade

What is a slum? - Homeless International - 0 views

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#class #america #slums #impacts

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  • Jasmine Wade on 07 Oct 13
     
    This site has two subsections in the About Slums section that 1)give information about what slums are and describes three characteristics of the slums and 2)the impacts that the slums have on 11 topics, including women education, political exclusion, and disasters. I simply think this link connects to this week's photo because looking at this person I imagine they would live in very poor living conditions, so "slums" in the term I searched.
Alexa Mason

Franklin D. Roosevelt - American Heritage Center, Inc. - 0 views

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#economics #Roosevelt #NewDeal #class

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  • Federal Securities Act of May 1933/ Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) This act required full disclosure of information on stocks being sold. The SEC regulated the stock market. Congress also gave the Federal Reserve Board the power to regulate the purchase of stock on margin. Critical for long-term success for businesses.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935-1943 This agency provided work for 8 million Americans. The WPA constructed or repaired schools, hospitals, airfields, etc. Decreased unemployment.
  • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 This banned child labor and set a minimum wage. This law was a long awaited triumph for the progressive-era social reformers.
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  • Social Security Act This act established a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind and physically disabled. Although the original SSA did not cover farm and domestic workers, it did help millions of Americans feel more secure.  
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This webpage presents a table outlining the many and varied programs brought forth by the New Deal. The table describes the program and its outcome. The New Deal changed the lives of many Americans through the implementing of a minimum wage, the creation of jobs, the banning of child labor and especially the Social Security Act.
Alexa Mason

The unemployed workers' movement of the 1930s - 0 views

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#class #communism #unemployed #workers #movement

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  • The 1930s produced the largest movement of the unemployed and poor that the country had ever known. The jobless rebelled against the inequalities produced by capitalism, an institution of rising profits for the wealthy ruling class. Protest movements emerged that pitted the rulers against those who were ruled — those whom the system had failed.
  • The CP declared those out of work to be “the tactical key to present the state of the class struggle
  • ommunists declared March 6, 1930, to be International Unemployment Day, and led marches and rallies of the unemployed in most of the major cities in the U.S. Several thousand marched to factories and auto plants to demand jobs and unemployment insurance. Thousands of unemployed veterans descended on Washington, D.C. Millions of unemployed Blacks and whites marched together, sometimes leading to bloodshed instigated by the cops. Federal troops made war on unarmed people, while the mainstream press branded the demonstrations as “riots.”
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  • During the 1930s, the Communist Party played a leading role in fighting for the demands of African Americans — who were devastated by the Great Depression — and helped mobilize them for their struggle. Thousands of them joined the CP. The CP also undertook food collections in the Black community of Harlem, N.Y., where unemployment had risen to as high as 80 percent.
  • Communist Party-led trade union organizations fought against the white chauvinistic policy of the American Federation of Labor, which excluded Black workers, and demanded a united labor movement based on equal rights for all workers. In the Black Belt South, they also led the sharecroppers union, which fought courageously against the tyranny of the planters. Members of the Black working class subsequently became leaders of the Black liberation movement
  • A Wealth Tax Act, Wagner Act and Social Security Act were implemented. Under the 1935 Social Security Act, the federal government paid a share of state and local public assistance costs. A Civilian Conservation Corps, designed to stimulate the economy, provided jobs as well.
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This article outlines the work of the Communist party in 1930s America. The Communist party was integral in mobilizing the unemployed working class in an effort to get fair and secure pay as well as jobs when unemployment drastically rose during the great depression. The Communist Party lead marches and protests, though they sometimes ended in bloodshed as the media depicted these demonstrations as riots. The party also provided an alternative to the exclusionary American Federation of Labor. It also provided framework for the mobilization of the black worker during this time.
Alexa Mason

Scottboro Boys - 0 views

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#class #race #communism #internationallabordefense

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  • Hoboing was a common pastime in the Depression year of 1931.  For some, riding freights was an appealing adventure compared to the drudgery and dreariness of their daily lives.  Others hopped rail cars to move from  one fruitless job search to the next. 
  • hoping to investigate a rumor of government jobs in Memphis hauling logs on the river a
  • Representing the Boys in their uphill legal battle were Stephen Roddy and Milo Moody. They were no "Dream Team."  Roddy was an unpaid and unprepared Chattanooga real estate attorney who, on the first day of trial, was "so stewed he could hardly walk straight."  Moody was a forgetful seventy-year old local attorney who hadn't tried a case in decades.
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  • he cases were appealed to the United States Supreme Court which overturned the convictions in the landmark case of Powell vs Alabama.  The Court, 7 - 2, ruled that the right of the defendants under the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause to  competent legal counsel had been denied by Alabama.  There would have to be new trials.
  • .  The Scottsboro Boys, for better or worse, cast their lots with the Communists who, in the South, were "treated with only slightly more courtesy than a gang of rapists."
  • The NAACP, which might have been expected to rush to the defense of the Scottsboro Boys, did not.  Rape was a politically explosive charge in the South, and the NAACP was concerned about damage to its effectiveness that might result if it turned out some or all of the Boys were guilty.  Instead, it was the Communist Party that moved aggressively to make the Scottsboro case their own.  The Party saw the case as providing a great recruiting tool among southern blacks and northern liberals. 
  • Everyone who had followed the case knew that Bates and Price both were wearing overalls.
  • She was a person of low repute, a prostitute.  She was neither crying, bleeding, or seriously bruised after the alleged gang rape.  She was fearful of being arrested for a Mann Act violation (crossing state lines for immoral purposes) when she met the posse in Paint Rock, so she and Bates made groundless accusations of rape to deflect attention from their own sins
  • As their trial date approached, they were moved to the Decatur jail, a rat-infested facility that two years earlier had been condemned as "unfit for white prisoners."
  • investigation could turn up no evidence of a Callie Brochie or the boardinghouse that Price said she owned,
  • Wright asked the Patterson jurors "whether justice in this case is going to be bought and sold with Jew money from New York?
  • Safely back in New York after the trial Leibowitz said of the jury that had just found his client guilty: "If you ever saw those creatures, those bigots whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes popped out at you like frogs, whose chins dripped tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy, you would not ask how they could do it.
  • In his instructions to the jury, Callahan told them that they should presume that no white woman in Alabama would consent to sex with a blac
  • Why did Gilley suddenly appear as a prosecution witness when they most needed him?  Knight admitted that he sent weekly checks to Gilley's mother and occasional spending money to Gilley. 
  • No surprise to anyone, Patterson was again convicted of rape.  What was surprising, however, was that the jury sentenced him to seventy-five years in prison rather than giving him the death sentence the prosecution requested.  One determined Methodist on the jury succeeded in persuading the other eleven to go along with his "compromise."  The verdict represented the first time in the history of Alabama that a black man convicted of raping a white woman had not been sentenced to death.
  • Free of Alabama, but not of the label "Scottsboro Boy" or from the wounds inflicted by six years in prison, they went on with their separate lives: to marriage, to alcoholism, to jobs, to fatherhood, to hope, to disillusionment, to disease, or to suicide.
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This webpage is dedicated to discussing the case and subsequent trials of the "Scottsboro Boys". The story of the Scottsboro boys illustrates an intersection between race and class in the southern United States in the 1930s. A group of black boys aboard a hobo train seeking work along with a smaller group of white boys and girls. A group of the black boys were accused by two white girls of having been raped. The girls attempted to present themselves as being of a higher class, so as to suggest that they would never be caught dead on one of those trains with those types of people. Truthfully, however, the girls were in fact on the train with them and seeking work as well. The NAACP, a mostly middle-class organization, initially didn't want to have anything to do with the case. They were more concerned with respectability. It was the Communist party's International Labor Defense who ultimately provided competent legal counsel for the boys.
Jacqueline Alley

A Sharecropping Contract - 0 views

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#class #GreatDepression #sharecropping #blacks #america

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    I thought this was interesting. It is a copy of a sharecropping agreement many blacks signed once they were free. They agreed to rent land from wealthy owners in return for a portion of the crop. Many blacks were unable to read when they signed these contracts and were unaware of the terms. This specific contract requires the lessor to furnish the mule, land, and other supplies up front and the lessee to pay for them later. It also forces the lessee to gin the cotton on the lessor's farm and is forced to pay a higher price to do so. Contracts like these were made to keep blacks poor. It was a way to keep the blacks thinking they were free, but in the end, working for nothing.
Alexa Mason

The 1930s" Turning Point for US Labor - 0 views

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#class #labor #unions #race #GreatDepression

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  • But they spoke too soon. Before the decade was over, the U.S. economy had plunged into the worst depression in U.S. history. The 1929 stock market crash which marked the beginning of the Great Depression ushered in a period of immiseration for virtually the entire working class. By 1932 it was estimated that 75 percent of the population was living in poverty, and fully one-third was unemployed. And in many places, Black unemployment rates were two, three, or even four times those of white workers.
  • the richest people in society felt no sympathy for the starving masses.
  • hey banded together as a group to oppose every measure to grant government assistance to feed the hungry or help the homeless
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  • In 1934, when 400,000 East Coast textile workers went on strike to win union recognition, the bosses responded with a reign of terror, provoking one of the bitterest and bloodiest strikes in U.S. labor history.
  • Most importantly, the working class was no longer segregated along racial lines. The slowdown in immigration after 1914 brought with it a corresponding increase in internal migration. A half-million Southern Blacks moved north during World War I. By 1930, more than 25 percent of Black men were employed in industrial jobs, compared with only 7 percent in 1890. By the mid—1930s, Black workers made up 20 percent of the laborers and 6 percent of the operatives in the steel industry nationally. And one-fifth of the workforce in Chicago’s slaughterhouses was Black. White workers couldn’t hope to win unless they united with Black workers–and that wouldn’t happen unless they organized on the basis of equality.1
  • Teamster President Daniel Tobin even repeated former AFL President Sam Gompers’ earlier insult, calling unskilled workers "garbage."
  • The workers of this country have rights under this law which cannot be taken from them, and nobody will be permitted to whittle them away but, on the other hand, no aggression is necessary now to attain these rights…. The principle that applies to the employer applies to workers as well and I ask you workers to cooperate in the same spirit.23
  • The NAACP proposed to the AFL "the formation of an interracial workers’ commission to promote systematic propaganda against racial discrimination in the unions." In 1929, the NAACP again appealed to the AFL to fight racial discrimination. In both instances, the AFL did not even bother to respond.17 B
  • n the early 1930s, unskilled workers who wanted to unionize had no choice but to apply for membership in the AFL, but became quickly disillusioned by the indifference–and sometimes hostility–toward them by the union leadership. Unskilled and semi-skilled workers who joined the AFL were quickly shuffled off into "federal locals"–as subsidiaries with fewer rights than the brotherhoods of skilled workers
  • Blacks were effectively excluded from receiving minimum wages established in particular industries, because the NRA allowed employers to exempt predominantly Black job categories from coverage. In the South, where Black workers were still concentrated, workers were routinely paid less than Northern workers for the same jobs in the same industries. And in industries in which Black and white workers’ wages were made equal, it was common practice for racist employers to simply fire all their Black workers and replace them with whites, arguing that the NRA wage minimums were "too much money for Negroes." It was with good reason that within a matter of months, the NRA was known among Black workers as the "Negro Removal Act" and the "Negro Robbed Again."
  • The Great Depression was the most significant period of class struggle that has ever taken place in the United States. The sheer intensity of the struggle led ever broader sections of the working class to become radicalized and to begin to generalize politically. For a very short period of time as the working class movement advanced–between 1935 and 1937–the level of radicalization was such that on a fairly large scale workers began to realize that if they were to have a chance at winning, they had to confront all the bosses’ attempts to divide and weaken the working-class movement. Workers had to break down racial barriers and build genuine unity and solidarity; they had to prepare themselves to confront the violence of the bosses, which grew in ferocity during this period; they had to fight against anti-communism; and they had to break with the Democrats and the Republicans and form an independent working-class party.
  • But the Communist Party developed its first national campaign against racism through its years-long effort to free the Scottsboro Boys. The Scottsboro Boys case began in 1931 and dragged on for nearly 20 years, making it one of the most important antiracist struggles in U.S. history. But it was also important because it marked the first time in the U.S. that Black and white workers had ever joined together in large numbers in a campaign against racism. The Scottsboro Boys were nine Black youths, aged 13 to 21, who were arrested in Alabama on a charge of gang-raping two white women on a train. There was no evidence to support a charge of rape, but that didn’t matter–particularly since Alabama is a Southern state, where it was common practice to convict Black men on unsubstantiated charges of raping white women. Within two weeks of the incident, the Scottsboro Boys had been tried, convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury–all while a huge lynch mob of white racists stood inside and outside the courtroom. The Scottsboro Boys case was primarily an issue of racism, but it also divided the Black population along class lines. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a traditionally middle-class, liberal Black organization, refused to touch the case at first. As one author described, "[T]he last thing they wanted was to identify the Association with a gang of mass rapists unless they were reasonably certain the boys were innocent or their constitutional rights had been abridged."52 But the Communist Party had no such reservations. It immediately sent a legal delegation from its International Labor Defense (ILD) committee to offer to defend the Scottsboro Boys in court.
  • Alexa Mason on 07 Oct 13
     
    This webpage describes the conditions in America in the 1930s. It outlines the struggles of the working class as the depression hit. It illustrates the demarcation between classes, especially the working class and the business owners who fought to prevent unionized workers. The reader learns about the violence incited as a result the business owner's fight to limit unions. The webpage also goes on to discuss the plight of black workers in America. The site illustrates an intersection between race and class through examples such as the Scottsboro Boys' case.
Jacqueline Alley

Dorothea Lange - 0 views

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#class #GreatDepression #documentary photography #immgrants

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  • Jacqueline Alley on 07 Oct 13
     
    Dorothea Lange was another photographer during the Great Depression. Her images were focused on sharecroppers, migrant workers, and displaced farmers. She shows the plight of the lower class. Dorothea Lange's most famous for her portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. She was a 32yr old mother who sold everything she owned to take care of her children, eating birds and frozen vegetables. Her collection is viewable on the right side gallery. She was able to document the hardships the lower class endured through her photographs.
Sh'nay Holmes

Social and Cultural Effects of the Depression - 1 views

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#class #Depression #social

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  • Sh'nay Holmes on 05 Oct 13
     
    This site summarizes human impact the Great Depression had on Americans. Many people have lost they jobs. This resulting in the increase of crime, prostitution and alcoholism as people tried to find an escape from their daily problems. Men were not getting married as often and birth rates decrease as to avoid the expense of feeding and caring for an additional person. Films and radio became very popular as a form of entertainment during these times.
Kathryn Walker

glbtq >> social sciences >> Radicalesbians - 0 views

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gender feminism radicalesbians

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  • Kathryn Walker on 04 Nov 13
     
    Since this is a picture of a "radicalesbian", attached is an article regarding the group. The Radicalesbians formed in New York in 1970 and disbanded in 1971. They believed in absolute female separatism and refused to associate with men or with women who did not cut their ties to mainstream heterosexual society.
erin Garris

The Stonewall Inn: The Spark of the Revolution - 0 views

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#gender #women #gayrights

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  • erin Garris on 19 Nov 13
     
    This site shows photos of gay men holding up banners just like the banner that Donna Gottschalk held. Their banner read "Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day." This was the first of many more celebrations to come. Its 2013 about to be 2014 and the parade is still rocking. I work in a predominately gay area and every year I witness people coming from the annual parade. Now I wonder if these new participants know their history.
Heidi Beckles

Are Women in the Media Only Portrayed As Sex Icons? - 0 views

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#gender #female #women #media #misrepresentation

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  • Heidi Beckles on 10 Nov 13
     
    Are women in the media only portrayed as sex icons? Statistics Show a Massive Gender Imbalance across Industries. This site touches on some really central issues women in our society are collectively faced with, - with no fear change in the near future. The Women's Media Center has provided dismaying statistical data on the status of women in U.S. media. The report draws attention to the striking underrepresentation of women who determine the content of news, literature, and television and film entertainment, as well as the negative portrayal of women in entertainment television and film. As a consequence, the role of women has had major societal effects, including gender inequity. MissRepresentation.org, an organization that "exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls' value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality," is campaigning to shed light on this issue and empower women and young girls to challenge the limiting media labels and recognize their other potentials. The goal of MissRepresentation.org is to expose how media influences youth in America into believing that youth, beauty and sexuality are the driving forces behind a girl's values. The media is a powerful instrument of change and change can only occur once we are able to see the type of force this tool has cast on society. It's up to us women to use the force of media to influence positive change and correct the representation of women. Lastly, stated in this article by Marie Wilson, Founding President of The White House Project, an organization that seeks to get more women into elected office, says, "You can't be what you can't see." This site is useful in exploring this week's image because it describes the leading force that drives the culture of society and the accepted notions constructed towards "woman"; the media. Heidi Beckles
Jasmine Wade

Home - The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center - 0 views

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#gender #LGBT #community #NYC #programs

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  • Jasmine Wade on 10 Nov 13
     
    The site for The Center, a community center for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender community, promotes many resources for everyone. There a tabs available on the site for events, causes supported by the organization, health programs, support for parenting and foster care, and general information on the organization. The center stays up to date on recent news and movements and, even though the target population is the LGBT community, provides and encourages and safe and healthy life for everyone.
Drew Yost

2013 'gayest year in gay history ' rights advocates say - 0 views

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  • Drew Yost on 09 Nov 13
     
    This msn news article discusses the current climate of homosexuality in the United States. It highlights the many progressive steps that have been take throughout this year toward equality in marriage and in the workplace for the gay community. The article focuses on the impact of the gay rights movement in the political arena. Including the public announcement of several gay politicians, the article suggests that Republicans are slowly trying to gain popularity with LGBT rights supporters, even though considered to be a conservative party. This article connects to the photograph of Donna Gottschalk and the gay liberation movement by making readers aware of the changes that have occurred, fueled by those who participated in the parade over 40 years ago.
Drew Yost

True Sustainability Requires Gender Equality | Center for American Progress - 0 views

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american progress gender

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  • Drew Yost on 09 Nov 13
     
    The American Progress site dedicates itself to the improvement of the livelihood of Americans. This article addresses the trends in gender equality in the workplace and the deep focus Americans have on clean energy as they look toward the future. By using research of female roles in the job market, the article encourages the presence of women as an equal part of the clean energy workforce. Based on the effects that the clean energy movement will have on the entire population, this article insists on equal representation of ideas form both genders to reach ultimate success.
Drew Yost

1970s Women's Liberation Movement - YouTube - 0 views

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liberation movement #gender

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  • Drew Yost on 09 Nov 13
     
    The multimedia presentation on the 1970's Women's Liberation Movement pays homage to some of the most influential leaders in the fight for female equality. Including moments like Billie Jean King's famous "battle of the sexes" tennis match, this video gives the viewer a glimpse into many of the victories that women achieved in the progression of the female presence in the United States. Striking photographs combined with video and audio recordings bring life to a great decade of change for women, and the belief that sex and gender should not affect human rights for Americans.
Drew Yost

Sweden's plan to bring gender equality to the movies - 0 views

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  • Drew Yost on 09 Nov 13
     
    This Washington Post article takes a look at a new and interesting way that Sweden is encouraging gender equality. The nation has implemented a grading system at several movie theatres where female characters in films are scored based on their proximity to a fully "developed" character. The "Bechdel" grading system was constructed by an "American cartoonist", and includes several standards a character must meet in order to earn an "A" rating. "Sweden is the fourth most gender-equal country," and the film grading system, they hope, continues to keep this topic at the forefront of citizen's minds.
Drew Yost

Stonewall and Christopher Street: Entering the global LGBTQ Equality Movement | Truth I... - 0 views

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christopher equality #gender

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  • Drew Yost on 09 Nov 13
     
    Truth in Progress is a website dedicated to the exploration of the civil rights histories, including both black and LGBT perspectives. The site invites participation as its members travel the country to document experiences regarding sexual orientation, racial issues, and religion and how these topics intersect with one another. The video "Stonewall and Christopher Street" is a short video discussing how the gay liberation parade where Donna Gottschalk was photographed, and the the Stonewall riots have become "memorialized" worldwide. Although many other significant moments occurred in the history of the gay rights movement, these two in particular have become "symbolic" for the LGBT community and others interested in its history. The speaker points out how Stonewall is often viewed as the beginning of the movement though other important steps came earlier.
eugene yates

Think Progress - 0 views

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#gender #lgbt #progress

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  • eugene yates on 08 Nov 13
     
    This site looks at LGBT issues on the national and international stage. It is full of related news articles from around the globe on issues that affect the community, which might be overlooked otherwise.
eugene yates

NYC Pride - 0 views

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#gender #pride #christopherstreet

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  • eugene yates on 08 Nov 13
     
    This site shows how the Pride Movement has grown beyond the initial riots. There is now an annual parade that takes place on June 28, (the day of the Stonewall Riots). The parade is held on Christopher Street in NYC. There is also a blog that keeps viewers abreast of current events in the LGBT community.
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