AANHPI History Calendar

On this day

October 8

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Urvashi Vaid Born

Urvashi Vaid, born this day, became a leading LGBTQ-rights strategist and, as head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1989, the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. (Anchored on her birth anniversary; shares Oct 8 with California's ethnic-studies law.)

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California Requires Ethnic Studies

California became the first state to require ethnic studies for high school graduation-a milestone rooted in the Asian American and Third World student movements of the late 1960s.