Unit 5: Civil Rights
Notes 4: Other Civil Rights Movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s
Latino Rights
Chicano American Movement
Focus
Basic civil rights: voting, ___________________________ from police violence
Changing what was taught in history education in schools
Quality of education for Latino Americans and bilingual education
The high minority __________________ rate in Vietnam
Actions
Protests
Student Walkouts (Blowouts) – 1968 East LA and elsewhere
Accomplishments
Bilingual education
Increase of Latino Americans in politics and activism
Brown Berets – worked in local communities – set up the East LA _________________________
Cesar Chaves and the United Farm Workers
Focus
Protecting the rights of farm workers
Actions
Strikes and Economic Boycotts
1966 ________________ Boycott
1970 Salad Bowl Strike
Accomplishments
1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which
gave ____________________________ bargaining rights to farm workers
Young Lords – Puerto Rican Americans
Use the reading about the Young Lords to explain their actions and accomplishments:
Focus
Improving access to ______________________ in Puerto Rican neighborhoods
Stopping the removal of Puerto Ricans from their neighborhoods (Chicago)
Actions
What were two examples of actions the Young Lords took?
Accomplishments
Look at the last page of your reading, what were two examples of their accomplishments?
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American Indian Movement
Red Power
Focus
Began in Minnesota in 1968 to address issues of Native American life at the time:
_______________________, housing, police abuse
Actions
 Red Power Movement occupied ________________________ Island for 19 months to reclaim
traditional Native American Land
 1972 “Trail of Broken Treaties” protest in Washington. Seized Bureau of Indian Affairs
and presented list of problems
 1973: 71 day armed standoff at _____________________________________________
 1978: The Longest Walk from Alcatraz to DC to protest laws they felt would hurt Native
Americans
Accomplishments
 According to PBS: “The occupation [of Alcatraz] also succeeded in getting the federal
government to end its policy of termination and adopt an official policy of Indian self_____________________________. From 1970 to 1971, Congress passed 52 legislative proposals
on behalf of American Indians to support tribal self-rule. President Nixon increased the
BIA ______________________ by 225 percent, doubled funds for Indian health care and
established the Office of Indian Water Rights. Also during Nixon's presidency,
_______________________________ funds were increased by $848,000 for college students. The
Office of Equal Opportunity provided more funds for economic development and drug
and alcohol recovery programs and expanded housing, health care and other
programs.”
 The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975: Allows
Tribes to _____________________ how to use Federal Funds themselves
Second Wave Feminism
Focus
Where the first wave focused on suffrage, the second wave focused on ____________________ in
society, the economy, and education
Events /Actions
The Birth Control Pill receives FDA approval in1960
Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963
Attacks society’s portrayal of women as ____________________________ and the “cult of domesticity”
The National Organization for _______________________ (NOW) founded 1966
1968 Miss America Protest
Burning of typically female products – the anti-feminists called it bra-burning
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Accomplishments
Title IX 1972
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be
denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity
receiving federal financial assistance...
 Affects access to education including funding for women’s ________________
Roe v Wade 1973
 Supreme Court Case that legalized ________________________
NOTAccomplished
The ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) FAILED to be ratified
Equality of rights under the law shall not be ___________________ or abridged by the United States or
by any State on account of sex.
Gay Rights
Focus
 Equal Rights
 Educators (and others) who were gay were usually fired
 Bars that catered to gays were shut down and newspapers would _________________
lists of people who went there
 FBI and Post Office ______________________________ those they thought were gay
 You could be arrested and jailed for being caught in a gay relationship
 Medical associations classified being gay as a ______________________ / mental illness
1966 Sip-In
The Mattachine Society staged a “sip-in” at a bar in Greenwich Village because the New
York Liquor Authority would not allow bars to ____________________ gay patrons
Sip In Accomplishments:
 New York City Commission on Human Rights acknowledged that gay people had the
______________________ to be served in bars
June 28, 1969 Stonewall Riot
After another police raid on the Stonewall Inn (a gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC),
patrons and people in the neighborhood started a three-day _______________ on the police
who tried to raid the club
Stonewall Accomplishments:
 Stonewall led to the beginning of media _____________________________ and the formation of
Gay Rights Groups
Gay Rights Accomplishments
 On June 28, 1970, the first Gay Pride ________________________took place in Los
Angeles, Chicago, and New York commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall riot
 1973, the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to _______________________
homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (they no longer saw being gay
as a mental illness)
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