Goal 11Part 7

Social Movements

Latino Civil Rights Movement Cesar Chavez

Migrant farm worker, political and civil rights activist

Organized UFWOC

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) union for Spanish speaking Californians organized a NATIONWIDE boycott of

CALIFORNIAN companies’ grapes Nonviolence

La Raza Unida – separate Latino political movement

A.I.M. – dissatisfied with the slow pace of reform

Often “militant” Native American rights organization

Legacy: Native Americans won morerights to “CONTROL THEIR OWN LAND”- Restoration of tribal land- Staged a “Trail of Broken Treaties

March”

Women’s Movement Feminine Mystique by Betty

Friedan “FEMINISM” – the belief that women

should have economic, political, and social equality with men!

Feminist Movement = 1960s Gloria Steinem – political,

feminist activist (urged women to join political office in America)

“Each suburban wife struggles with it

alone. As she made the beds, shopped

for groceries, matched slipcover

material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub

Scouts and Brownies, lay beside

her husband at night- she was afraid

to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this

all?” ― Betty Friedan,

The Feminine Mystique

N.O.W. & the E.E.O.C Civil Rights Act of ’64 - no discrimination based on

gender – helped women’s movement What is going to handle claims of discrimination?

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…problem = didn’t address women’s claims equally so…..Betty Freidan and others form the

National Organization for Women (NOW) – to serve women’s goals

Roe V. Wade (1973) Outcome: Women DO have the right to

choose to have an “ABORTION” Legacy: still divides American today

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Congress passed in 1972 Cause:

ERA argued that men and women deserve the same protection under the law (14th Amend.)

“Simple Justice” Result:

Stop –ERA Campaign - “NEW RIGHTNEW RIGHT” Leader: Phyllis Schlafley – ANTI – Feminist (conservative) HATED

the ERA ERA needs 38 states to be ratified and part of the

Constitution

New Right / Stop-ERA Campaign A Conservative-built movement for the

1970s Main opponent = Equal Rights Amendment Overall result: ERA gets 35 of 38 states to

ratify the idea – deadline comes and the E.R.A IS NEVER RATIFIED!!!!!! The New Right WINS

Title IX Equal Opportunity Act of

1972 A ban on gender discrimination

in all school-related programs

receiving federal funding

Counterculture (HIPPIES ) Counterculture – a youth movement made

up of mostly white, middle-class college kids Attempts: to try to build a “separate society”

from mainstream America Reason for decline: MAINSTREAM

AMERICA REJECTED THEM~

Hippie Capital of America

HAIGHT – ASHBURY (San Francisco)

A Changing Culture

Art = Andy Warhol (pop artist) Rock Music =

English Rock band that took over America(Beatlemania)

WOODSTOCK1969 Concert

– Music and Art Festival

- music’s most popular bands at the time performed on a farm in upstate New York

Main opponent of the Hippie Movement (Counter Culture) Conservatives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Biggest conservative in America

- Richard Nixon- Loved traditional values and hated threats of new

ideas and CHANGE - (Mainstream America)