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VOCABULARY. Cesar Chavez – helped to organize the National Farm workers Association. Organized a grape boycot to help fight for better rights for migrant farmers American Indian Movement – a militant organization formed in 1968 to work for Native American rights
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VOCABULARY • Cesar Chavez – helped to organize the National Farm workers Association. Organized a grape boycot to help fight for better rights for migrant farmers • American Indian Movement – a militant organization formed in 1968 to work for Native American rights • Feminism – The belief that women should have full economic, political and social equality with men • Equal Rights Amendment – REA – a proposed amendment that would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender – It failed • Counter Culture – the culture of young people who rejected maintream American society in the 1960s. They sought to create an alternative society based on peace, love and freedoms
CHAPTER 23 • THE POLITICS OF PROTEST
Latino Presence Grows • Mexican Americans • Largest Latino group • Descendents • Braceros • Revolution • Better paying jobs • Puerto Ricans • Spanish-American War • Cubans • Castro • Other groups • Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, Colombians
CESAR CHAVEZ • Helped to establish the National Farm Workers Association • Believed in non-violence • Organized a Grape Boycott to try to get better working conditions for farmers
Cultural Pride • “Brown Power” Movements • Classes taught in own language • Programs on their culture • Bilingual Act – 1968 • Funds for bilingual and heritage programs • Chicanos or Chicanas – Mexicanos • Brown Berets - David Sanchez • Walkouts to demand smaller classes, more Chicano teachers • Political Power • Organized to have a bigger voice in government • Worked within the 2 party system • Also created La Raza Unida (The People United) • Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance for Land Grants)
Autonomy • Ability to control and govern their own lives. • How have the Native Americans been treated in this regard?
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT • Militant organization • Took over • Alcatraz • Wounded Knee • Wanted equal rights and improved living conditions
Victories of the 1970s and 1980s • Indian Education Act 1972 • Indian Self-Determination and Education Act – 1975 • Gave more control over their own affairs • Used old treaties to regain rights to land
Women Fight for Equality • Feminism • Belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality with men • Betty Friedan • Feminine Mystique • Women in the workplace • Women and activism
NOW • National Organization for Women • Equal Opportunity Employment Commission • Made sure the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was followed • Gloria Steinem • National Women’s Political Caucus • Ms. • Magazine • Examine contemporary issues from a feminist perspective
GAINS • Roe v. Wade - 1973 • Equal Rights Amendment - 1972 • Phyllis Schlafly • New Right • Combat the ERA • Focused on social, cultural, and moral problems • The Movement’s legacy • Women’s roles have changed • Less women “stay at home” • Different careers • Elected to public office
ROE v. WADE • 1973 • Legalized abortion in first trimester
COUNTER CULTURE “Tune in, Turn on and Drop Out”
Counter Culture • Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco • Hippie Capitol • Decline • Page 782
MUSIC The Beatles WOODSTOCK • New York • 1969
Changing Attitudes • “do your own thing” philosophy • Permissive behavior • Magazines, TV, Books – addressed topics that were once prohibited • Sex and explicit violence • Some embraced the change while others viewed it as a decline in morals
Conservatives • Mainstream Americans wanted a change • Presented their solutions to key issues • Lawlessness and crime • Size of Federal Government • welfare
JESSE JACKSON • Ran for president • 1984 & 1988 • Still involved today
Environmental Protection Agency • Set and enforced pollution standards • Endangered species
Love Canal • New York • Built on top of toxic waste dump site
Three Mile Island • Nuclear facility near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Reactor overheated – radiation escaped
Ralph Nader • Lawyer and consumer advocate • Unsafe at Any Speed • Presidential candidate
WEEK 13JOURNAL 50 • Copy the following in your journal: • Case 21 Test is next Wednesday. • We will test in Room E10. • You need a #2 pencil. Not Mechanical • Be here at 8:25 Wednesday. • Case 21 counts for two test grades.