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Civil rights movements aimed to ensure that all people were equally protected by the law, regardless of race, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. Specific goals included ending racial segregation, securing voting rights, eliminating employment discrimination, and protecting the rights of minorities, women, and LGBT individuals.
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association demanded one man, one vote; an end to discrimination in housing; an end to discrimination in local government; an end to the gerrymandering of district boundaries that limited Catholic voting power; and the disbandment of the B-Specials, an entirely Protestant police reserve.
The six organizers informally known as the Big Six were A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King Jr., Whitney Young, James Farmer, and John Lewis. The march's full name was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
On the 30th of January 1972, fourteen unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers protesting internment were shot and killed by soldiers from the Parachute Regiment in Derry, Northern Ireland. The event is seen by some as a turning point that escalated the conflict from civil disobedience to armed confrontation.
Soviet dissidents in the 1960s developed a legalist approach, focusing on procedural and legal violations rather than moral arguments. They circulated samizdat, the unsanctioned press, founded the Chronicle of Current Events in April 1968, and formed the Helsinki Watch Groups in Moscow, Kiev, Vilnius, Tbilisi, and Erevan after the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975.
Native title came into force federally in Australia in 1993. Voting rights restrictions had persisted in some states until as late as 1965, with Queensland being the last to remove them, and the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families continued until late in the 20th century.