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gay-rights movement

(Encyclopedia)gay-rights movement, organized efforts to end the criminalization of homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there was some organized activity on behalf of the rights of homos...

Equal Rights Amendment

(Encyclopedia)Equal Rights Amendment: see civil rights; feminism. ...

Special Drawing Rights

(Encyclopedia)Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), type of international monetary reserve currency established (1968) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Created in response to worries concerning the limitations of...

European Court of Human Rights

(Encyclopedia)European Court of Human Rights: see Council of Europe. ...

Women's Rights National Historical Park

(Encyclopedia)Women's Rights National Historical Park: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Quids

(Encyclopedia)Quids, in U.S. political history, an extreme states' rights group of Jeffersonian Republicans led by John Randolph of Virginia. Feeling that Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had retreated from the s...

Bill of Rights, in British history

(Encyclopedia)Bill of Rights, 1689, in British history, one of the fundamental instruments of constitutional law. It registered in statutory form the outcome of the long 17th-century struggle between the Stuart kin...

Bill of Rights, in U.S. history

(Encyclopedia)Bill of Rights, in U.S. history: see Constitution of the United States. ...

Milk, Harvey

(Encyclopedia)Milk, Harvey, 1931–78, U.S. politician and gay-rights activist. When elected (1977) to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he was the first acknowledged homosexual to win high local office in th...