SEC Launches Probe of Pre-IPO Tech Stock Sales Transactions. What started as an action against a single company in late June has evolved into a probe of an entire industry.
Women's Rights Movements. The American women's rights movement is usually dated from the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 to discuss the Social, Civil, and Religious Condition of Woman..
On December 1, 1955, the modern civil rights movement began when Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.oreover, other discriminated groups were inspired by the civil rights movement and borrowed its tactics. Over the 1960's and 1970's, gays and lesbians, women, Native Americans, and people with disabilities pushed for their own inclusion in American society.