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  2. List of executive actions by Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Amendment of Paragraph 7, Subdivision III, Schedule A, Civil Service Rules (Public Health Service Employees) September 26, 1936 1709 1629 7460 Designating the Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission (Henry A. Wiley) September 26, 1936 1725 1630 7461 Placing Certain Lands Under the Control of the Secretary of the Interior (Alabama)

  3. Human subject research legislation in the United States

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    In 1974, Congress passed the National Research Act which established the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (CPHS) and mandated that the Public Health Service come up with regulations that would protect the rights of human research subjects.

  4. Franklin D. Roosevelt and civil rights - Wikipedia

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt's relationship with Civil Rights was a complicated one. While he was popular among African Americans, Catholics and Jews, he has in retrospect received heavy criticism for the ethnic cleansing of Mexican Americans in the 1930s known as the Mexican Repatriation and his internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

  5. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Several abortion clinics (most known was the Alexandria Health Clinic) sued to prevent Jayne Bray and other anti-abortion protesters from voicing their freedom of speech in front of the clinics in Washington D.C. [299] Alexandria Women's Health Clinic reported that the protesters violated 42 U.S.C. 1985(3), which prohibits protests to deprive ...

  6. Women's Healthcare in the 20th Century United States

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    Historically, women of color in the U.S. had to face sexism as well as racial prejudice which added to the barriers they experienced. As the 20th century progressed, women’s health became an important and integral part of the healthcare system within the U.S. Women’s rights activists pushed for more women-oriented healthcare facilities that could provide primary care for women.

  7. National Research Act - Wikipedia

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    National Research Act; Other short titles: National Research Service Award Act of 1974: Long title: An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of National Research Service Awards to assure the continued excellence of biomedical and behavioral research and to provide for the protection of human subjects involved in biomedical and behavioral research and for other purposes.

  8. Presidential Commission on the Status of Women - Wikipedia

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    The PCSW research on women's status, as well as the research conducted by state commissions, demonstrated that discrimination against women was a serious problem. In 1964, the U.S. Department of Labor began to bring members of state commissions to Washington annually to discuss best practices to combat such discrimination.

  9. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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    allowing the Government to introduce regulations outlawing discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation in goods and services, which led to the Sexual Orientation Regulations 2006; creating a public duty to promote equality on the ground of gender (The Equality Act 2006, section 84, inserting section 76A of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 ...