Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
1961 · Event
Kennedy names Eleanor Roosevelt to chair a commission on women's inequality; its 1963 report on pay, hiring and legal rights helps spark the women's movement.
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Around 1961
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)