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

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    Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974), found that overly restrictive maternity leave regulations in public schools violate the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment. [162] Kentucky adopts a law preventing public hospitals from performing abortion procedures except to protect the life of ...

  3. 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.

  4. Timeline of women's education - Wikipedia

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    The first secondary educational school for females is inaugurated (public schools for girls having opened in 1845–46). [79] Sweden The profession of teacher at public primary and elementary schools is opened to both sexes. [103] 1854: Chile The first public elementary school for girls is opened. [83] 1855: United States

  5. Women's education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rury, John L. Education and Women's Work: Female Schooling and the Division of Labor in Urban America, 1870–1930 (1991). Turk, Diana B. Bound by a mighty vow: Sisterhood and women's fraternities, 1870-1920 (NYU Press, 2004). Walch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (1996). Wyman ...

  6. She-She-She Camps - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Roosevelt proposed that this would consist of camps for jobless women and residential worker schools. The She-She-She camps were funded by presidential order in 1933. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins championed one such camp after ER held a White House Conference for Unemployed Women on April 30, 1934, and subsequently ER's concept of a ...

  7. Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms

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    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Women received recognition from the Roosevelt administration. In relief programs, they were eligible for jobs if they were the breadwinner in the family. During the 1930s there was a strong national consensus that in times of job shortages, it was wrong for the government to employ both a husband and his wife. [144]

  8. FDR and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt spent plenty of time in ...

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    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s visits were more public and political - as were the ones the couple made together. As part of his remarks during a mid-June 1936 trip, he noted that, “you ...

  9. Education policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Roosevelt administration provided one-time grants to support struggling schools, supported teachers through the New Deal's work relief programs, and provided for the construction and repair of school buildings through public works programs. Despite these measures, education was not a major priority of the administration, and many benefits ...