During the American 1960s, the fight for the rights and freedoms that needed to be guaranteed predominated. Some of these groups were African Americans fighting for civil rights, homosexuals fighting for gay rights, and women determined to achieve liberation. African Americans continually fought for freedom from severe racism and restriction of rights before the 1960s, but this culminated in the following decade. . The events of the 1960s helped give birth to the Black Power movement by giving African Americans a “new frame of mind” regarding the treatment of their oppressors. In April 1964, an African American attempted to rally into a political party, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, to try to represent blacks, suffering potential harm and job losses to do so. Unfortunately, when this political party was welcomed into the Democratic National Convention, it received only two seats and what they considered a “back of the bus” offer. Through further boycotts – the Montgomery bus boycott, for example – and the March on Washington. Both of these types of protests helped African Americans win the victory of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Gays and lesbians also went through a controversial period during the 1960s. It all started with a routine police raid on Stonewall, a gay bar. During this raid, the men refused to be arrested and sent to prison, and started rioting in the streets. This riot became a three-day rebellion in which gay men flaunted their homosexuality in Sheridan Square in front of everyone. This “coming out” helped the gay rights movement because it “initiated self-defense and political activity,” drawing more attention to the issue. Organizations such as the Gay Liberation Front have attempted to connect the history of the American radical tradition, ed. Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian (New York: The New Press, 2011), 569.Carl Wittman, “Refugees From Amerika: A Gay Manifesto (1970),” The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition, ed. Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian (New York: The New Press, 2011), 583. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition, ed. Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian (New York: The New Press, 2011), 573. The Radical Reader: A Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition, ed. Timothy Patrick McCarthy and John McMillian (New York: The New Press, 2011), 584.Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom, (New York: WW Norton & Company Ltd., 1999), 294-95.Eric Foner, The History of American Freedom, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 1999), 296.