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Text continues: "The United States is a nation in continual process of change. The expansion of civil rights and the struggle to secure equality, justice and human dignity is part of the nation's history. The expansion of civil rights has often come from protest and struggle. Abolition of slavery and women's suffrage were two early civil rights struggles. Later this issues centered around elimination of segregation and voting rights for African Americans. Educational access and employment opportunities continue to be arenas of struggle. The lesbian and gay civil rights movement is only the latest in a series of civil rights movements." Black text over rainbow background. The center of the poster contains a timeline (1833-1996) of various moments in the history of the civil rights movement. The lower right quadrant contains a multicolored drawing of the capitol dome with and American flag at the top.

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Title The civil rights movement

Subject Civil rights (subject), Gay and lesbian rights (subject), Los Angeles Unified School District (corporate name)

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Format 1 print : lithograph, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 46 x 61 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

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Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-45470

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The United States is a nation in a continual process of change. The expansion of civil rights and the struggle

to secure equality, justice and human dignity is part of the nation’s history. The expansion of civil

rights has often come from protest and struggle. Abolition of slavery and women’s

suffrage were two early civil rights struggles. Later the issues centered around

elimination of segregation and voting rights for African Americans.

Educational access and employment opportunities continue

to be arenas of struggle. The Lesbian and Gay

Civil Rights Movement is only the

latest in a series of civil rights

movements.

1833

American Anti-Slavery
Society is founded in
Philadelphia.

1865-1870

The 13th Amendment abolished
slavery (1865); the 14th
Amendment gave African
Americans citizenship and
equal rights (1868); the 15th
Amendment acknowledged the
voting rights of freed slaves.
(1870)

1909

National Association of
the Advancement of
Colored People

is founded in New York.

1920
The 19th Amendment granted
women the right to vote.

1945

The pink triangle, the
symbol associated
with Lesbian/Gay Civil
Rights traces its origin
to the tens of
thousands of gay
prisoners who
perished in the
Holocaust. X

Mid Fifties

Gay civil rights
organizations like the
Mattachine Society,
Daughters of Bilitiis, One,
Inc. sprang up. Since gay
news was not yet carried
by the mainstream press,
there was no networking
between the gay
organizations.

1963

Civil Rights March on
Washington, D.C. bring more
than 200,000 demonstrators
to protest civil rights
violations.

1965

Cesar Chavez and
National Farm Workers
Association joined
Filipino workers in a
strike against grape
growers in Delano,
California.

1969

7

On June 28-29, gays in Greenwich Village, New York
rose up to protest continued police harassment. The
ensuing violence became know as the Stonewall Riots
and signaled the beginning of the Lesbian/Gay Civil

Rights Movement.

The California Supreme Court ruled in Morrison vs. the
California Stete Board of Education that the state
cannot revoke a teacher’s credential for being gay.

1973

The American Psychiatric Association removed

homosexuality from the list of psychiatric disorders.
For the first time gay people were not under threat for

being institutionalized against their will.

Lambda, the oldest Lesbian & Gay legal organization,

was founded.

The first Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

(PFLAG) was started in New York.

1974

Lau v. Nichols filed on behaif
of limited English-speaking
Chinese students in the San
Francisco School District
becomes the landmark
Supreme Court case in the
area of minority language

1975

1977

Public Law 94-142 stated that
public schools must provide
special education services and
equal access for all children
with disabilities that may
interfere with their basic
education.

tarvey Milk became the
first openly gay candidate
elected to office in a major
city. He was later
assassinated along with
Mayor Mascone in 1978.

1982

A thousand ca :es of a
mysterious disease, later
known own as AIDS were
diagnosed. Perceived as a
gay disease, the world failed
to respond aggressively to
the devastation that was yet
to come.

1983

1984

Gerry Studds (D-Mass}
became the first openly gay
member of Congress.

Openly gay, African American
author, Audre Lorde, spoke at
the 20th Anniversary of the

Martin Luther King Jr.’s March

Los Angeles teacher,

Dr. Virginia Uribe, started
Project 10 at Fairfax High
School. This was the first
district-funded group to
recognize the needs of
secondary gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgendered

rights. Bilingual education

and other language minority
programs are implemented.

The US Civil Service
Commission dropped its ban
on lesbians and gays in
civilian federal government
jobs.

on Washington, D.C.

students.

Discovery of the virus that
caused AIDS.

1987

More than a half a million gays
and lesbians, the largest gay
gathering ever, converged on
Washington, D.C. for the country’s
biggest gay civil rights march.

Public awareness about AIDS

is heightened through media
demonstrations by various
groups such as the AIDS Coalition
to Unleash Power (ACT UP).

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1988
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 acknowledged Japanese
Americans for the injustice suffered during World War Il.

The first book length work by a gay American Indian,
Living Th irit. An American Indian Anthol , Was
published. This explained the respected and accepted
place that most gay people had within most traditional
Indian tribes.

1990

The US Senate approved a
Hate Crimes Bill that
included crimes based on
sexual orientation. The
President signed it into law.

1991

The Gay & Lesbian Education Commission began as a
District office to work with the Board to help provide an
equal access to an education for all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgendered students.

1993-94

To meet the needs of all youth, Los Angeles
Unified School District sponsored the first
gay youth conference, “Models of Pride,”
and the first Lesbian/Gay Youth Prom.

1996

or sexual orientation.

ultimately go to the Hawaii Supreme Court in 1998.

+ The passage of Proposition 209 in the State of California signaled a set-back for affirmative action.

* The Supreme Court struck down Amendment 2, which prohibits protection based on sexual orientation. The Court stated that a state cannot deem a class of
people strangers to their own laws. Thus the government cannot make laws based on animosity toward gay people.

+ The Los Angeles Unified School District elected Jeff Horton, the first openly gay school board president.

+ The Federal Court of Appeals addressed school liability for anti-gay violence in public education. In Nabozny v. Podlesny (Wisconsin), the court ruled that
the school district had failed to protect student, James Nabozny, from brutal, anti-gay abuse. All students deserve equal protection regardless of gender

+ In Hawaii, enormous progress was made toward winning the right to marry. The government was required to justify its harsh discrimination in civil
marriage. The trial showed that the government did not have a reason for refusing same sex couples the freedom to marry. The decision will;

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Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

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