Carter, Rosalynn, 121–122
Cassedy, Ellen, 500
Catholic worker movement, 184
Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC),
122–123, 382–383
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 75, 123–126, 211,
271, 393, 429, 467, 469, 527, 651, 652,
653, 714, 746
Celler, Emanuel, 239, 306, 337
Census reform, 432, 591
Center for the American Woman and Poli-
tics (CAWP), 126–127
Center for Women Policy Studies, 233
Chamber of Commerce, U.S., 236, 253
Chapman, Maria Weston, 133
Chávez, César, 343, 640, 824–831
Chavez, Linda, 127–128
Chavez-Thompson, Linda, 128–129, 832
Chenoweth, Helen, 129–130, 802
Chicanas. See Hispanic Americans
Child abuse, 204, 438, 456, 493
Child Abuse Act (1984), 438
Child custody, 38, 92, 176, 394, 399, 635
Child day care, xlii, xliii, 130–131, 658,
661, 727–728
legislation on, 184, 219
support for, 479, 484, 496, 501, 544, 710
Child guardianship. See Child custody
Child health, 1–2, 105, 570, 615–616, 683
legislation on, 615–616
support for, 136, 137, 138, 394, 508
Child Labor Amendment, 105, 131–132,
419–420, 631, 715
Child labor reform, 56, 291, 372, 373,
392–393, 476, 477, 478, 507, 550, 683
legislation on, 1, 131–132, 136, 507, 531
Child, Lydia Maria, 4, 132–133
Child poverty, 532
Child Support Amendments (1984), 219
Child support enforcement, xliv, 114, 118,
133–135, 219, 266, 532, 588
Child welfare, 16, 135–138, 142, 220,
227–228, 373, 392, 471, 532, 559, 588,
612, 821
legislation on, 253–254, 532, 692–693
Children’s Bill of Rights, 707
Children’s Bureau, 1–2, 135–137, 372, 373,
392, 477, 616, 683
Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), 130,
137–138, 220, 532, 808
Children’s Health Insurance Program, 612
Chinese Americans, 557
Chisholm, Shirley, 138–140, 163, 189, 193,
239, 487, 496, 542, 749, 758
Christensen, Donna. See Christian-Green,
Donna
Christian Coalition, 141
Christian conservatism, 141, 162–163,
172–173
Christian-Green, Donna, 141
Church, Marguerite Stitt, 142
Citizens’ Advisory Council on the Status
of Women (CACSW), 142–143, 161,
216, 251, 544, 545
Citizens Party, 321, 542
Citizenship laws, xli, 111, 177, 291,
387–388, 520, 560
Citizenship schools, 150, 394
Civil liberties, 29, 217
Civil Rights Act (1957), 368, 470, 479, 546
Civil Rights Act (1964), xlii, 105, 143–145,
189, 470, 479
Civil Rights Act (1964), Title VII, xlii, 19,
143–145, 244
inclusion of sex in language of, 305,
461, 621
military preferences in, 678
See also Equal Employment Opportu-
nity Commission; Pregnancy dis-
crimination; Sex discrimination; Sex-
ual harassment
Civil Rights Act (1991), 145–146, 168, 232,
234, 294, 501, 547
Civil Rights Commission, 546
Civil rights movement, xlii, 23, 34–35,
36–37, 146–148, 220, 249–250, 400,
479, 480
for homosexuals, 399, 791, 819
opposition to, 684
organizational support for, 97–98,
188–189, 469–471, 479, 480, 716–717,
727
participants in 1930s–1940s, 23, 25–26,
34–35, 50–52, 58, 68–71, 149–150,
388–389, 451–453, 470, 522–523,
584–586, 660–663
participants in 1950s–1980s, 36–37, 49,
59–61, 66–67, 97–98, 182–184,
219–221, 249–250, 309–311, 314–317,
326–328, 347–348, 362–366, 375–376,
378–379, 379–380, 451–453, 459–461,
470, 522–523, 580–581, 610, 626,
660–663
See also Affirmative action; Civil Rights
acts; Desegregation; Voting Rights Act
(1965)
Civil Rights Restoration Act (1988),
148–149, 168, 223, 309
Civil Rights, U.S. Commission on, 244
Clarenbach, Karen, 484
Clark Gray, Georgia Neese, 149, 192, 225
Clark, Septima, 149–150
Clarke, Miriam Williams, 150–151
Clayton, Eva McPherson, 151, 229
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