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3 unusual facts about equality


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Reverse Underground Railroad

Although Illinois was a free state, Crenshaw leased the salt works in nearby Equality, Illinois from the U.S. Government, which permitted the use of slaves for the arduous labor of hauling and boiling brackish water, from local salt springs, to produce salt.

Stace England

He has released several solo recordings including Salt Sex Slaves documenting the Old Slave House near Equality, Illinois, and Greetings From Cairo, Illinois documenting the history of that city.


Achievement gap in the United States

Sociologists Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips have argued that narrowing the black-white test score gap "would do more to move the United States toward racial equality than any politically plausible alternative".

Against Equality

Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage contains essays and op-ed pieces by prominent queer thinkers, including Kate Bornstein, Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, Craig Willse, Kenyon Farrow, Kate Raphael, Deeg, John D'Emilio, Ryan Conrad, Yasmin Nair, Martha Jane Kaufman, Katie Miles, and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Alberta Schenck Adams

Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams (June 1, 1928 – July 6, 2009) was a teenage civil rights activist in the struggle for equality by the indigenous peoples in the United States Territory of Alaska.

All-women shortlists

Ann Widdecombe criticised the use of AWS stating that women in the past who fought for equality such as the Suffragettes "wanted equal opportunities not special privileges" and "they would have thrown themselves under the King's horse to protest against positive discrimination and all-women shortlists".

Anne Spencer

Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Anti-racism

At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Ashley Montagu argued for the equality of humans across races and cultures.

Ayyavazhi phenomenology

R.Ponnu's, Sri Vaikunda Swamigal and Struggle for Social Equality in South India, (Doctoral thesis in University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.) 2000.

Balancing domain decomposition method

The dual counterpart to BDD is FETI, which enforces the equality of the solution between the subdomain by Lagrange multipliers.

Campaign Against Homophobia

Campaign Against Homophobia (original name: Kampania Przeciw Homofobii, abbreviation: KPH) is a Polish LGBT organisation, which aims to promote legal and social equality for people outside the heteronorm.

Canada Clause

A clause in the Charlottetown Accord that would have recognized the province of Quebec as a distinct society within Canada, aboriginal rights, sex equality and other principles; or

Constitution of Angola

The new constitution was hailed as "a day of victory and happiness for the people of Angola" by Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, then president of the National Assembly, and Bornito de Sousa, who chaired the constitutional commission, said that the charter was "a reflection of equality, of good sense, and true representation of the electorate".

Criticisms of socialism

Peter Self criticizes the traditional socialist planned economy and argues against pursuing "extreme equality" because he believes it requires "strong coercion" and does not allow for "reasonable recognition for different individual needs, tastes (for work or leisure) and talents."

Djakarta Artmosphere

Djakarta Artmosphere slowly attempts to bring back the foundations of the spirit of equality in diversity using Music and Photography media.

Douglas W. Rae

A noteworthy work on equality theory, "Equalities" compares and contrasts the ideas of a number of political theorists, including Immanuel Kant, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, and Vilfredo Pareto.

Edmund J. Davis

One of his protégés was Norris Wright Cuney of Galveston, who continued the struggle for equality until his own death in 1896 and is honored as one of the important figures in Texas and American black history.

Elmer Knutson

Knutson held the belief that the 1931 Statute of Westminster, which granted legislative equality with the United Kingdom to Canada, also granted sovereignty to the provinces, because the provinces had not individually signed on to confederation.

Empire of Ivory

Temeraire and Laurence continue to develop their notions of draconic equality in British society and find common cause with William Wilberforce and the abolitionist movement in exchange for assistance from prominent political leaders.

Equality Act

Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 2000, commonly referred to as the Equality Act, an Act of Parliament of South Africa

Equality and Diversity Forum

The Forum was established by Sarah Spencer CBE and Patrick Grattan MBE in 2002 to promote dialogue and understanding across the separate equality ‘strands’, and to ensure that policy debate on proposals for discrimination legislation and a single equality body recognises the cross-cutting nature of equality issues.

Gilbert Bilezikian

In 1988 he helped to found Christians for Biblical Equality and drafted the statement "Men, Women, and Biblical Equality" which laid out the biblical rationale for equality as well as its application in the community of believers and the family.

Griggs v. Duke Power Co.

Congress has now provided that tests or criteria for employment or promotion may not provide equality of opportunity merely in the sense of the fabled offer of milk to the stork and the fox.

Huế Phật Đản shootings

More than 500 people marched across the Perfume River, carrying signs and placards, congregating at the Từ Đàm pagoda before a 3,000-strong demonstration, calling for religious equality, took place in the city centre as government security officials surrounded the area with armoured personnel carriers and civil guardsmen.

Ibsen Year

Cate Blanchett, who played the title role in Hedda Gabler in the Sydney Theatre Company's visiting performance there, was awarded the Ibsen Centennial Commemoration Award, presented by Minister of Equality Karita Bekkemellem.

Jane Campbell

Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton (born 1959), Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

John Worgan

Martin Madan, in a satirical song upon Joah Bates, issued anonymously, and set to music by Samuel Wesley, entitled ‘The Organ laid open, &c.,’ placed him as a player upon an equality with Handel: "Let Handel or Worgan go thresh at the organ".

José Cisneros

A San Francisco resident for over fifteen years, Treasurer Cisneros has been active in the community including serving on the Equality California Institute board and the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club board.

Kate Pickett

She co-authored (with Richard G. Wilkinson) The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better and is Director of The Equality Trust.

Kesho Y. Scott

She is the author of several books, including The Habit of Surviving, and Tight Spaces (coauthored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba High), which was the winner of the 1988 American Book Award, and was also awarded the Christine Wilson Medal for Equality and Justice by the Iowa Commission on the Status of Women.

Law Commission of India

In November 2013 the Centre appointed former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Ajit Prakash Shah as the New chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India in place of D.K Jain who has taken over as president National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Shah will have a three-year tenure and has been saddled with a wide terms of reference including one to examine existing laws from the gender equality perspective and suggest necessary amendments.

Lingerhahn

When the mayor asked them what they wanted, they answered “Freedom and equality. There exists no more Prussian state. We hereby secede from the Mayoralty.”

Lucy Parsons

While it is commonly accepted by nearly all biographical accounts (including those of the Lucy Parsons Center, the IWW, and Joe Knowles) that Parsons joined the Communist Party in 1939, there is some dispute, notably in Gale Ahrens' essay "Lucy Parsons: Mystery Revolutionist, More Dangerous Than A Thousand Rioters", which can be found in the anthology Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality, Solidarity.

Micheline Montreuil

Jack Layton, leader of the party, commented favourably on her candidacy, saying that he was pleased with her candidacy and that having candidates who could raise questions of equality showed that the NDP was quite open and that Quebecers were progressive enough to accept differences.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah's 11th August Speech

He spoke of an inclusive and impartial government, religious freedom, rule of law and equality for all.

My 5 Wives

The ladies go to a women's equality seminar where the speaker, Dr. Van Dyke (Molly Shannon), preaches that women should dominate the relationship and be completely equal to their "lesser halves."

People accounting hypothesis

Within the field of equality, diversity and inclusion, the people accounting hypothesis is a social psychological theory based on social categorization.

Princess Donna

She became interested in photography and the politics of sex and gender equality as a teen, and studied both at New York University and its Tisch School of the Arts.

Pursuit of Equality

Director Geoff Callan, along with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and philanthropists Christopher Bently and Wilkes Bashford, hosted a wedding celebration titled The Pursuit of Equality in order to increase public awareness of this issue before the November 4th vote on California Proposition 8.

Reverse discrimination

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Equality Act 2010 make it clear that treating two people identically may not be sufficient to guarantee that they have been treated equally in law if the task, physical environment or service does not offer them equality of outcome.

Section Twenty-five of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

They may also include those created by ordinary legislation, like the Indian Act, and constitutional scholar Peter Hogg has speculated that without this section, section 15 (the equality provision) would have possibly threatened these rights, since they are particular to a race.

Shirley Summerskill

Her mother Edith Summerskill had also been a Labour MP and government minister; her nephew, Ben Summerskill, is chief executive of the UK gay equality charity Stonewall.

Sir Harold of Zodanga

He regards Carter as something of a blowhard, claiming impossible prowess in battle, and Ulysses Paxton, the other earthman resident on Barsoom, as a rabble-rouser, advocating Terran ideas of equality and freedom unwelcome to the hierarchical, slave-owning Martians.

Spanish order of precedence

## The Minister of Health, Social Policy and Equality - Ana Mato

Spheres of Justice

Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality is a book written by Michael Walzer (ISBN 0-465-08189-4).

Syracuse Cultural Workers

The Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW) is a corporation founded on July 17, 1982 to further "a culture that honors diversity and celebrates community; that inspires and nurtures justice, equality and freedom; that respects our fragile Earth and all its beings; that encourages and supports all forms of creative expression."

The Gender War

The documentary focuses on the national organisation for women’s and young women's shelters in Sweden, ROKS, an organisation helping young female victims of sexual abuse called Friends of Bella, former Minister of Gender Equality Margareta Winberg and Professor Eva Lundgren.

Uri Regev

Currently he serves as the President and CEO of “Hiddush – For Freedom of Religion and Equality”, a trans-denominational nonprofit organization aimed at promoting religious freedom and equality in Israel, a partnership between Israeli Jews and World Jewry, founded in 2009.

Women's rugby union

2016 The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio will include men's and women's rugby sevens—with the women's tournament being given absolute equality with the men's in terms of both player and team numbers.

Youth for Exchange and Understanding

Seminars, it's a one-week open to maximum 40 participants to exchange ideas and opinions on a particular theme (e.g. environment, active participation in society, Human Rights Education, Racism and Xenophobia, Equality, Culture of Peace, Inclusion, etc.

Zoe Nicholson

In 2010, during a stump speech by President Barack Obama for Senator Barbara Boxer, she was escorted from the event by Secret Service when she began "yelling" about issues of equality surrounding Don't Ask Don't Tell.


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