Latinos, Native Americans, and

Women Fight For Equality

“The MAN” was an insult minorities and young hippies used

for old people in places of POWER

Freddie Prinze

CoolistGuitarist EVER!!

1. Do you

know this guy?

What did Latinos want? Demand that schools offer Spanish-

speaking children classes taught in their own language as well as programs about their culture – Bilingual Education Act 1968

Get Latinos elected to Congress through the efforts of La Raza Unida

LULAC 1929-fight segregation and other forms of discrimination

Who was a leader? "Sí, se puede"? Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers Organizing

Committee in 1966 – to seek higher wages and better working conditions for Mexican-American migrant farm workers in California

UFW, was important because◦ Grassroots Organization◦ He worked in the fields with the Latino workers◦ Non Violent Boycotts

but refused to be pushedaround.

What was the main objective of the American Indian Movement (AIM) of the 1970’s?Return Native American lands, burial grounds, and fishing and timber rights25-50% of Native women getting government medical care were sterilized w/o their knowledge or permissionBIA stole $137,000,000,000 in funds

What did AIM do to bring attention to treaty abuses?

Trail of Broken Treaties- march on Washington, D.C.

Took hostages/seized village at Wounded Knee, SD

Took Alcatraz Island and refused to leave until old treaties honored

1972 Indian Education Act 1975 Indian Self-Determination and

Education Assistance Act Several old treaty violations went to court

and Natives got land back

Name 2 factors that helped launch the women’s movement.

-women’s entry into the workplace-women’ involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements

What was the message of The Feminine Mystique?

That many women felt unfulfilled and were dissatisfied with their status in society.

What was the significance of The Feminine Mystique?

It helped galvanize women across the country and fuel the women’s movement.

National Women’s Political Caucus

Title IX Roe V. Wade ERA

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress passed such an Amendment and most states ratified it, but at the last minute in 1982 it was stopped by a coalition of conservatives led by Phyllis Schlafly and ERA never passed.

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National Organization for Women◦ Free child care◦ Equal Rights Amendment◦ No More “Glass Ceiling”: An invisible but very

real, resistance to promoting women into top positions.