Women's Rights MovementThe struggle for women's rights, like the right to vote, education and equal pay, began with the U.S. suffrage movement and continues today.
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Farm Labor MovementMigrant farm labor workers had many challenges in the past that continue to this day. Hardened by his early experience as a migrant worker, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. His union joined with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee in its first strike against grape growers in California, and the two organizations later merged to become the United Farm Workers.
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Civil Rights MovementCivil rights figures Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X applied different strategies in the struggle for equality. Landmark legal cases and laws during the era include Brown v Board of Education, the Civil Rights acts of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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