1970
October 10
Your Right to Eat German Food: ACLU Chapter Chairwoman Denied Service at German Restaurant, Sues
Carol Weintraub, Chair of the ACLU Chapter in San Francisco, was denied service at Schroeder’s, a noted German-American restaurant, which did not admit women for lunch.
The ACLU of Northern California on this day announced that it would sue to end the discrimination against women.
Learn more about the ACLU and women’ rights: https://www.aclu.org/womens-rights
Watch videos from the ACLU Women’s Rights Project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywj_a0Mulvk&list=PLwfdTKcPlB5mwDXMIW0U7RM49dP_OvoMx
Learn more: Gail Collins, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (2009)
Abortion Rights
ACLU
african-americans
Alice Paul
anti-communism
Anti-Communist Hysteria
Birth Control
Brown v. Board of Education
Censorship
CIA
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cold War
Espionage Act
FBI
First Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
freedom of speech
Free Speech
Gay Rights
Hate Speech
homosexuality
Hoover, J. Edgar
HUAC
Japanese American Internment
King, Dr. Martin Luther
Ku Klux Klan
Labor Unions
Lesbian and Gay Rights
Loyalty Oaths
McCarthy, Sen. Joe
New York Times
Obscenity
Police Misconduct
Same-Sex Marriage
Separation of Church and State
Sex Discrimination
Smith Act
Spying
Spying on Americans
Vietnam War
Voting Rights
Voting Rights Act of 1965
War on Terror
Watergate
White House
Women's Rights
Women's Suffrage
World War I
World War II Relocation Camps