Social Change
Hispanics Problems: barrios, 50% higher unemployment rate than whites, poor working conditions Cesar Chavez: formed the UFW (United Farm Workers) Used boycotts, hunger strikes Successful: union recognized La Raza Unida Gained political power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns5NMHTk-yY C. Chavez: 4 min.
Native Americans Problems: poverty, unemployment, depression 1954: Termination policy: natives moved from reservations to cities; failed; ended in 1961 AIM (American Indian Movement): militant civil rights organization Success: Indian Education Act; return of tribal lands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv4Pp-SQ-A8
Women Feminism: belief that women should have economic, political, and social equality NOW (Nat. Organization for Women): Betty Friedan Roe v Wade: allowed for abortion in first trimester Equal Rights Amendment: passed in Congress but not in enough states Title IX, Equal Pay Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zl5qeF0aqs
The Counterculture Hippies Music: Beatles, Woodstock Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) Drugs (LSD) Buddhism Communes College dropouts Decline: violence, disorganization, drugs, loss of icons (Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix) Music: Beatles, Woodstock Conservative Backlash: Nixon and Republican influence