January 1974
A 1974 Government Accountability Office investigation found the Indian Health Service had sterilized at least 3,406 Native American women between 1973-1976 without proper informed consent. Scholars estimated that up to 25% of Native women were sterilized during the 1970s. The program targeted women on welfare and those deemed 'unfit,' using coercive consent practices.
The second National Black Political Assembly convened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1974, continuing the coalition launched at the 1972 Gary Convention. The assembly debated electoral strategy versus independent Black political organization. Tensions between electoral Democrats and Black nationalists began fragmenting the coalition that the Gary Convention had assembled.
Events
- 1974Indian Health Service Sterilizes Estimated 25% of Native American Women
A 1974 Government Accountability Office investigation found the Indian Health Service had sterilized at least 3,406 Native American women between 1973-1976 without proper informed consent. Scholars estimated that up to 25% of Native women were sterilized during the 1970s. The program targeted women on welfare and those deemed 'unfit,' using coercive consent practices.
- January 1974National Black Political Assembly Meets for Second Convention
The second National Black Political Assembly convened in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1974, continuing the coalition launched at the 1972 Gary Convention. The assembly debated electoral strategy versus independent Black political organization. Tensions between electoral Democrats and Black nationalists began fragmenting the coalition that the Gary Convention had assembled.
- 1974Memphis Sanitation Workers Win NLRB Reinstatement After Race Discrimination
Throughout the early 1970s, Black municipal workers across the South successfully challenged racially discriminatory layoff and seniority practices through EEOC and NLRB complaints following the precedent set by the Memphis sanitation strike. Federal enforcement actions resulted in reinstatement orders and back pay for workers dismissed under pretextual 'last hired, first fired' policies.