Chapter 30
An Era of Protest and Change
Section 3
The Rights Revolution Expanded
• Obj: Explain how the Latino population grew
after WWII
• Analyze the Latino and Native American rights
movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s
• Describe the expansion of rights for
consumers and the disabled.
The Latino Population Grows
• Latin American population on the rise while
jobs were not
• America was in need of cheap labor
• Latinos and Hispanics come in large numbers
• Mexican American known as Chicanos largest
group
Farm labor
• Bracero Program- granted temporary guest
worker status
• Many illegals and legal immigrants stayed
• After WWII more Latino countries like Cuba
and Dominican Republic would rise
Pressing for Equal Rights
• Most faced discrimination
– Pay, working conditions, education
• Cesar Chavez
– Attempted to unite migrant farmworkers to
unionize and demand better conditions
– UFW??
– Strikes and boycotts
• California passed laws allowing collective
bargaining with UFW
Chicano Movement
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Larger movement for Mexican American pride
Demanded their history and culture be taught
Also gain political strength
By 1980- six Hispanics sat in congress
Native American Movement
• Native Americans organize to fight for rights
• AIM??
– Dennis Banks and George Mitchell
• Alcatraz?
– Said land belong to them. Why?
• Siege of Wounded Knee?
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee?
Progress
• The Indian Self Determination Act- granted
tribes greater control over their resources
• Lawsuits to regain water and land use rights
Asian Americans
• Japanese American Citizens League- formed to
fight discrimination against Asian Americans
• Fought for lost property taken during WWII
Consumers and Disabled
• Ralph Nader and Unsafe at Any Speed
• National traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
in 1966
• OSHA??
• Because of disabled vets from Vietnam,
handicap accessibility became a much larger
issue.
The Environmental Movement
Section 4
• Obj: assess the causes and effects of the
environmental movement
• Analyze why environmental protection
became a controversial issue
Environmental Activist Speak Out
• Industrialization taking a toll
– London 1952??
• Toxic Waste
• Acid Rain
• Silent Spring- written by Rachel Carsonabout?
• DDT?
• Cuyahoga River in 1969??
Inaugurating Earth Day
• Earth Day created to bring attention of
environmental issues to Congress
• April 22 1970 was first
• Sierra Club?
• Wilderness Society?
• These groups and event got people’s attention
Action
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Nixon took up Issue
Environmental Protection Agency-1970
Clean Air Act- 1970
Clean Water Act- 1973
Endangered Species Act- 1973
• Ford also created Nuclear Regulatory
Commission- purpose?
Setbacks
• Love Canal?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrWtd1P-NoU
• 3 mile island??
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qwg4oERhvw
• Environmental regulation drew oppositionconservative groups said stripped individual of
their property rights
– Hurt the economy