Harvey Milk Research Paper

Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk was a human and civil rights leader and one of the first openly gay officials to be elected to office in the United States on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He promoted gay rights, women’s rights, and other civic matters as an advocate and politician. He was assassinated by another city supervisor, Dan White, along with Mayor George Moscone.

==Young Life and Education==

Harvey Bernard Milk was born on January 8, 1978, in Woodmere, New York to Lithuanian-Jewish parents, Minerva Karns and William Milk.Shilts, 1982 He had one brother, Robert. William Milk served in the U.S. Navy and his mother served as a World War I “Yeomanette.”The Harvey Milk Foundation, n.d. His grandfather, Morris Milk, organized the

The City elected George Moscone, a gay rights and labor supporter, mayor and offered Milk the job of city commissioner.Shilts, 1982 Milk lost the city supervisor election and, in 1976, Mayor Moscone chose him for the Board of Permit Appeals.Harvey Milk crossed boundaries and succeeded in a public arena during a time when homosexuals suffered severe harassment and oppression. Harvey Milk became the U.S. city commissioner to be openly gay. He then lost in a race for State Assembly. He helped Moscone and Anne Kronenberg pass an amendment to change the Board of Supervisor Elections to district ballots. Milk ran for City Supervisor again in 1977 and won. On January 9, 1978, he became the San Francisco City-County Supervisor. As Supervisor, Milk protected gay rights, established day cares for working mothers, and reformed the tax code to attract businesses to the city’s deserted factories and warehouses. He also improved library services, community safety, and prevented the passing of Senator John Briggs’ Proposition 6, known as the Briggs Initiative, which would require California public schools to fire openly gay teachers.The Harvey Milk Foundation,

Candlelight vigils followed and many gay people came out publicly while marching on Washington, D.C. for gay rights. He is the subject of the 2008 move Milk, which won two Academy Awards, with Sean Penn playing Harvey Milk.

International Harvey Milk Day is put on by the group, The Harvey Milk Foundation, and takes place on May 22 every year across the nation with a dedicated exhibit in Sacramento, California.The Harvey Milk Foundation. (2016). About - Education and Harvey Milk Day. MilkFoundation.Org, http://milkfoundation.org/about/

==References==

===Bibliography===

Shilts, R. (1982). The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. New York: St. Martin’s Press.

The Harvey Milk Foundation. The Official Harvey Milk Biography. Retrieved December 1, 2016, from MilkFoundation.Org, http://milkfoundation.org/about/harvey-milk-biography/


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[[Category: American]]

[[Category: Civil Rights]]

[[Category: Human