The feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s reminded the world that women have always played important historical roles, despite often being overlooked.
From American women winning the right to vote to the #MeToo movement, Stacker draws on a number of historical and archival sources to explore the past 100 years of women s history in the U.S. and around the world.
In the middle of the night, political leaders, priests, students and activists languishing inside Nicaragua s most notorious prisons were awoken, given the clothes they had been arrested in and told to dress. Hours later, 222 of them, widely considered political prisoners, landed at a Washington-area airport, deported from their own country.
A former staffer with The Carter Center saw how Jimmy Carter’s efforts to bring democracy to Latin America improved conditions, prevented bloodshed and saved lives.