1. 1970’s What changed from the 1950’s to the 1970’s?
Protests, lifestyles, Cold War
What might change in the 1970’s?
What do you know already?

2. What was American life like in the 1970s?
Protests, Rights Movements
Domestic events

3. Life in the 1970s Protests continue
What did people protest in the 1960s?
Some movements continued, new movements emerge
Counterculture faded, protests remained

4. 1970’s Continuing Movements
1- Civil Rights (new leaders)
Continuing fight over issues:
Policy brutality
Access to housing / education (integration)
Access to voting
2- Women’s Rights
No discrimination / harassment (Equal Rights Amendment – failed)
Healthcare

5. 1- Civil Rights Do black kids have the right to access white schools?
New education issue= Busing- transporting children to schools outside their neighborhoods
Forced integration
“White flight” (“white” schools still existed (and were better))
Busing faced a great deal of resistance
Do black kids have the right to access white schools?
Do white kids have the right to go to school without black kids?

6. 1- Civil Rights Workplace, Education
Affirmative Action- special programs for African Americans (then other minorities)
Hope- improve status, gain skills
Many black Americans historically excluded from positions
Some believed it was reverse racism- whites kept from jobs /scholarships/schools

7. 3- Gay Rights Movement 1969- Stonewall riots
Police raided a gay bar in NYC, patrons resisted
Gay men and lesbians started a movement for rights
Issues:
No discrimination (employment)
Partnership / marriage rights

8. 4- Native American Rights Movement
Lives before / during 1970s:
Less than 1% of population
Massive unemployment (poverty)
Very low income rate
Lower life expectancy

9. 4- Native Americans Rights Movement
Wanted independence from US society
Programs to create opportunities on reservations
Protests- took over territory, made demands

10. 4- Native Americans Rights Movement
Successes:
Increased funds to Native American education
Won rights to property
Businesses developed on reservations
Some have own, tribal laws

11. 5- Disability Rights Wanted people of all abilities to live freely
Not put in institutions
Goals:
Access to buildings
No discrimination

12. 5- Disability Rights Successes:
Rehabilitation Act, section 504: schools / businesses can’t keep out people with disabilities
All students receive free, appropriate education
Discrimination based on ability banned

13. 6- Environmental Movement
Environmental movement started with: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Described problems with pollution, pesticides
Problems:
Rivers unsafe to swim
Smog- fog with smoke
Forests cut down
Garbage, oil spills

14. 6- Environmental Movement
Successes:
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- government agency that promoted anti- pollution
Laws passed:
Clean air- cars (car-makers had to hit standards)
Clean water (can’t dump in lakes, rivers)
Endangered species

15. 6- Environmental Movement
Many concerned about nuclear energy
Yes- it is cleaner than oil and coal
No- radiation is harmful
Three Mile Island- Pennsylvania nuclear power plant leaked radiation
No one hurt, but people doubted/feared nuclear energy

16. 1970s Protests
Write an editorial (opinion-based article) from the 1970’s. Describe an issue people are protesting about. What is your stance? Why? What action are you demanding from people / the government?
Compare a protest movement from the 1970s to the movement today. What has stayed the same / changed? (environmentalism, gay rights, etc…)