SE US 9.C Identify the roles of significant leaders who supported various
rights movements, including Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, Rosa
Parks, Hector P. Garcia, and Betty Friedan.
Mr. R. Cavazos
Worthing High School
Spring Semester 2013
TAKS/STAAR Material
Significant leaders who supported various civil rights movements
Martin Luther King Jr. =
a Civil Rights leader, who
encouraged non-violence as a
way to protest lack of civil
rights and liberties.
He was assassinated in April 0f
1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
was arrested and put in jail
in Birmingham, Alabama.
While in Jail he wrote a
letter to other
ministers/clergy explaining
why he was in jail and how
unjust is was for people not
to be treated fairly and not
having equality.
Significant leaders who supported various rights movements - Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez
He supported better working
conditions and better pay for
immigrants workers in
agricultural jobs who worked
in the fields.
He hoped to make immigrants
lives better by:
1. earning fair wages and
helping them get a better life
2. not be mistreated by their
employers. (Fear of
deportation)
Significant leaders who supported various civil rights movements - Rosa
Parks
Rosa Parks =
In Montgomery Alabama, Rosa
Parks refused to obey bus
driver orders that she give up
her seat to make room for a
white passenger.
Parks' action sparked the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Significant leaders who supported various civil rights movements - Hector P.
Garcia
Hector P. Garcia
founder of the American G.I. Forum. Dr.
Garcia was a champion for civil rights.
Dr. Garcia wrote articles about the major
issues faced by Mexican Americans
soldiers who were not getting proper
healthcare.
Dr. Hector Perez Garcia
(1914-1996).
Significant leaders who supported various rights movements – Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
She is a leader of the feminist (women's
rights) movement.
She was a founding member of:
1. National Organization for Women
(NOW),
2. the National Abortion Rights Action
League and the National Women's
Political Caucus.
She helped spark the women's movement
in the 1960s.
Feminine Mystique
Book written by Betty Friedan who
said that something was happening
to women at home.
They would become depressed
and not have a sense of
accomplishment by just being
housewives.
She felt that women were trapped
by domestic life.
Felix Longoria
Mexican American
from Three Rivers,
Texas. He was denied
burial in an all white
cemetery.
He had served his
country during WWII.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
A Supreme Court Judge who’s
court ruled in favor of minority
rights. The court decisions
made minority rights the law of
the land.
Little Rock, Arkansas
1957
Central High School
Nine African American
Students were to attend this
all white high school. They
were called the Little Rock 9.
They were not let in so
President Eisenhower sent
in Federal Troops to allow
them to attend and to
protect them from the
crowds.
Civil Rights during the 1960’s
Kent State Tragedy
student protest led to the innocent
killing of students at Kent State
University by Army National Guard in
Ohio.
The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a
period of 13 seconds, killing four
students and wounding nine others
Student were protesting the American
invasion of Cambodia.