Other
Civil Rights
Movements
The Women’s Movement
Feminism
Betty Friedan
--The Feminine Mystique
--National Organization for Women (NOW)
Gloria Steinem
--“After Black Power, Women’s Liberation” 1969
--Founded Ms. Magazine
Important Events:
Equal Pay Act 1963
Civil Rights Act 1964
CT v. Griswold 1965
Title IX 1972
Roe v. Wade 1973
Equal Rights Amendment
Latino Civil Rights Movement
Pedro Hernandez
Mendez v. Westminster (1946)
Hernandez v. Texas (1954)
Cesar Chavez
• Field worker until 1952
• Co-founded the UFW with Dolores
Huerta (1962)
• Led grape pickers march from Delano to
Sacramento (1965) ; encouraged
Americans to boycott table grapes-strike lasted 5 years and ended with
union recognition & better wages
(1970)
• Undertook many "spiritual fasts",
regarding the act as “a personal
spiritual transformation”; influenced by
Catholic tradition of doing penance &
by Gandhi’s fasts and emphasis of
nonviolence.
• Continued to organize strikes &
boycotts—including the Salad Bowl
strike, the largest farm worker strike in
U.S. history—won higher wages for
grape & lettuce workers (1970-72)
Dolores Huerta
• Co-founded UFW with Chavez (1962)
• Directed the UFW's national boycott
during the Delano Grape Strike (1965-70)
• Negotiated contract w/ Schenley Wine
Company; first time farm workers
effectively bargained with an agricultural
enterprise (1966)
I Am Joaquin (1967)
by Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
Yo soy Joaquín,
I am Joaquín, lost in a world of confusion,
caught up in the whirl of a gringo society,
confused by the rules, scorned by attitudes,
suppressed by manipulation, and destroyed by modern society.
My fathers have lost the economic battle
and won the struggle of cultural survival.
And now! I must choose between the paradox of
victory of the spirit, despite physical hunger,
or to exist in the grasp of American social neurosis,
sterilization of the soul and a full stomach.
Yes, I have come a long way to nowhere,
unwillingly dragged by that monstrous, technical,
industrial giant called Progress and Anglo success....
I look at myself.
I watch my brothers.
I shed tears of sorrow. I sow seeds of hate.
I withdraw to the safety within the circle of life -MY OWN PEOPLE . . . .
Latino Student protests in Los Angeles 1968
Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida
(National United Peoples Party)
• American political party centered on
Chicano nationalism
• Campaigned for better housing,
work, and educational opportunities
for Mexican-Americans.
Battle for Immigrants’ Rights
The American Indian Movement (AIM)
Occupation of
Alcatraz 1969
Wounded Knee II 1973
The Gay Rights Movement
Stonewall
Riots
New
Organizations
Form
First Gay Pride Parade June 28, 1970
Day of Silence started 1996
Fight for
Gay Marriage