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Lectures in History

Expanding Rights in the 1960s and 1970s

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor William Sturkey taught a class about expanding rights in the 1960s and '70s, looking at women’s liberation and the gay rights movement. He covered topics such as birth control, the Equal Rights Amendment and the Stonewall riots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast. This week, University of North Carolina

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Chapel Hill Professor William Sterky teaches a class about expanding rights in the 1960s and 70s,

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looking at women's liberation and the gay rights movement. So the rights revolution today,

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let's start with a little story.

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1963, this woman Sherry Thinkbine, which is a pseudonym, it's not her real name.

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It was featured in a Life magazine article.

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You see her up here from the article.

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The story was about a choice that her family was facing.

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She was pregnant.

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Her husband had recently traveled to Europe where he acquired a drug called thalidomide. So thalidomide, which you see here behind

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