Stonewall uprising begins

A coalition of labor, civil-rights, faith and community groups demanded jobs, freedom and federal action. Bayard Rustin organized the march; women leaders and economic justice demands were often...

Title VII prohibited employment discrimination and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The law created a major institutional route for claims, but enforcement gaps and unequal...

The act targeted racial barriers to voting after campaigns led by Black communities and organizers. Its protections were later weakened, showing the continuing struggle over institutions and equal...

The first UK law against racial discrimination banned it in specified public places and created a Race Relations Board. Campaigners criticized its narrow scope, leading to further legislation and...

The act partially decriminalized consensual sex between men over 21 in private in England and Wales. It was a limited reform that left unequal age rules and broad exclusions in place.

Women activists met to set a shared agenda for liberation, including equal pay, education and childcare. The conference helped build a decentralized movement while debate continued over race,...

Parliament repealed a discriminatory criminal-law provision that had set a higher age of consent for same-sex relations between men than for heterosexual relations. COC and other advocates had...

Title IX prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded education. Student groups, educators and women’s organizations used it to challenge institutional barriers, while unequal enforcement...

Section 504 prohibited disability discrimination in federally funded programs. Disabled activists later forced the government to issue regulations, demonstrating that rights require organized...

The APA’s board voted to remove homosexuality as a mental disorder after years of organizing by gay and lesbian activists and internal debate. Medical institutions became a site of struggle over who...