United States Founding and Civil Rights Milestones

Events in United States history that set out founding principles of the republic or advanced the claim to equal civil and political rights. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes a founding act, a convention or a mass mobilization in the American tradition of rights. The adoption of the Declaration of Independence announced the separation of the colonies and the principles behind it, the Seneca Falls Convention was an early women's rights convention, and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought the demands of the civil rights movement to the national capital. The group follows one national tradition across different centuries.