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Abbreviations key: SNLC - (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) NAACP - National Association for the Advanced of Colored People SNCC - Student Non-Violent Coordinating Council MFDP - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
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Abbreviations key: LBGT - Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender UFW - United Farm Workers LULAC - League of United Latin American Citizens YCAA - Young Citizens for Community Action AIM - American Indian Movement MALDEF - Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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Ralph Abernathy * Negotiated Wounded Knee * Helped to form SCLC
* Participated in the March on Washington
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Stokely Carmichael Selma Montgomery March
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Council) Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Black Panthers Freedom Rides
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Dorothy Cotton SCLC ACTION Citizen Education Programs
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Jesse Jackson Sr. SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Operation Bread Basket (Chicago) Operation Push Rainbow Coalition Too middle class for many Black Activists
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James Farmer Founded CORE Freedom Rides (NAACP) Worked with Diane Nash
SNCC
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John Lewis SNCC Freedom Summer Selma Montgomery March Bloody Sunday
Sit-ins Bus Boycott Freedom Rider March on Washington
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Diane Nash Founded SNCC Lunch Counter Sit-ins Freedom Riders
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Roy Wilkins NAACP Leader during Brown v Board of Education
Civil Rights Act Voting Rights Act March on Washington Selma Montgomery March Anti Black Power
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Ella Baker NAACP SCLC SNCC Organized MFDP
Influenced by Harlem Renaissance
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Daisy Bates Organized Little Rock 9 DNC & Anti poverty programs
Joined the NAACP
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Harvey Milk 1st openly gay state level politician
Sponsored Briggs initiative Encouraged people to come out of the closet and challenge prejudice Great at organizing coalitions
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Bayard Rustin Forced out Encouraged by others to be an activist
Helped to Organize the March on Washington but forced out because he was gay. Worked with MLK but left because he was gay.
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Brenda Howard Gay Liberation Front Gay Activist Alliance
Founded Pride celebrations in response to Stonewall Rebellion. Coalition for Lesbian & Gay rights
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Janice Langbehn Four Visitation Act LGBT couples may visit in hospital
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Harry Hay Co Founder Gay Liberation Front & Radical Faeries
Anti Assimilation Helped “Society’s Androgynous Minority” Founded Mattachine Society
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Judy Shepard Founded Mathew Shepard Foundation
Defined Hate Crimes to include sexual orientation
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Stonewall Rebellion Police raided gay bars in NY which resulted in protests and launched the Gay Activists Movement.
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Gay Activists Alliance
Founded after the Stonewall Rebellion to secure basic human rights. Used “zaps”
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Cesar Chavez American Labor Movement National Farm Workers Association
United Farm Workers Union Aggressive but non-violent “Si se puede” Delano Grape Strike Salad Bowl Strike Collective bargaining Against toxic pesticides
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Dolores Huerta 22 arrests for non violent protests
Lobbied for many worker laws Voter rights in barrios UFW bargaining and strikes Fought against Bracero Program Collectively bargained for farm workers Feminist Majority
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Reies Lopez Tijerina Chicano movement Land reclamation
Poor Peoples Campaign March Armed raid of Court House Believed “Anglo-psychopathy”
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Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
“Yo Soy Joaquin” & Chicano Gringo establishment didn’t help Chicanos Founded Crusade for Justice Voter Registration Opened school for Chicano kids
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Hector P. Garcia Founded American GI forum to help Hispanic veteran’s get their rights. Fought Poll Taxes Fought against the Bracero program Worked with LULAC Used the Warren Court
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Brown Berets Return land to Mexico Fought police brutality
Wanted educational equality Changed to YCAA to fight discrimination Fought against the Chicano draft in Viet Nam Worked with SNCC
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League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Formed in 1927 to fight discrimination since Mexican American War. Fought Mexican schools Hernandez v. Texas American GI Forum MALDEF
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Mexican American Political Association
Helped the UFW Helped Hispanic political candidates Worked to register voters Organized fundraising, demonstrations, and lobbied for Immigrant rights and social services for undocumented immigrants.
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La Raza Unida Worked to improve the economic, social and political aspects for Chicanos. Worked with Corky and the Crusade for Justice 3rd Political party Worked to “Get out the vote”
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Betty Friedan Wrote the book Feminine Mystique Was a member of NOW
Lead a march for equal pay Worked for equal pay, sex discrimination and harassment
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Eleanor Smeal Worked to pass ERA Amendment Equal Credit Act
Violence against women Act Pregnancy Discrimination Act Abortion March
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Gloria Steinem Editor of Ms. Magazine Supported ERA
Still active in politics today
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Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum Pro Family Movement Anti-ERA
Silent Majority Advocated women must raise the children A woman’s place is in the home
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Feminist Majority Foundation
Gender balance for police End domestic violence RU486 Clinic Defense
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Dennis Banks Walk for Justice Founded AIM Occupied Alcatraz
Trail of Broken Treaties Occupied Wounded Knee Worked to protect treaty rights for fishing, trapping, and land.
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Russell Means AIM United Nations and Indigenous Rights Alcatraz
Mayflower II Bureau of Indian Affairs building
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Wallace “Mad Bear” Anderson
Fought for Native American GI Bill rights Land rights Tax rights Burned tax summons Occupied Alcatraz Non-Violent protest
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Rupert Custco Founded American Indian Historical Society to fight Native American stereotypes
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Winona La Duke White Earth Land recovery project Regain lost land
End forced sterilization of women Honor the Earth Ran for Vice President with Ralph Nader twice.
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Minnie Two Shoes Publicist for AIM
Founded Native American Press Association
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David Narcomey AIM Member Current Mascot issue
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Native American Rights Fund
Organization to help specialize in Indian Law Preserve Tribes Natural Resources Human Rights Government Accountability
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The Longest Walk 1978 March from San Francisco to Washington DC
Symbolized forced removal of tribes Opposed Anti Indian laws Passed religious freedom law
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Trail of Broken Treaties
Cross country protest in 1972 Bring attention to Native American issues Traveled from West Coast to DC Nixon wouldn’t take their paper so they took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Current Mascot Issue Rude to use Native as mascot
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Gordon Hirabyashi Defied Japanese Internment Ended up in court
Objected the draft
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Fred Korematsu Korematsu v US Defied Japanese Internment
ACLU helped him Fought for Japanese rights
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Karen Narasaki Promoted diversity on TV and in the Media
United minorities with research, education, voting behavior, and discriminatory barriers. Common Cause Worked with literacy, immigrant issues, affirmative action
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Yuri Kochiyama Taken to internment camp Moved to New York
Met Malcolm X and joined his organization Malcolm X died in her arms Took over the Statue of Liberty for Puerto Ricans Fought for internment reparations
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Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn
Internment camps Fought Nevada’s law against bi-racial marriage Published in Ms. Magazine later in life Redress and Reparations
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Asian American Political Alliance
Grew from Berkeley CA Yuji Ichioka & Emma Gee Wanted Ethnic Studies schools End to Vietnam War Reparations
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Gideon v Wainwright Right to an Attorney 6th Amendment rights
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Mapp v Ohio Can’t use illegally found evidence in court Need a warrant
5th Amendment
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Roe v Wade Abortion legal Right to privacy 4th Amendment
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Univ of CA v Bakke Upheld affirmative action – allow race to be a factor in college admission 14th amendment
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Escobedo v Illinois Right to lawyer when questioned 6th amendment
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Lau v Nichols ELL classes 14th amendment Civil Rights Act
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Miranda v Arizona Rights or warning must be said and understood.
..The person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he/she has the right to remain silent, and that anything the person says will be used against that person in court; the person must be clearly informed that he/she has the right to consult with an attorney and to have that attorney present during questioning, and that, if he/she is indigent, an attorney will be provided at no cost to represent him/her.
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Mendez v Westminster Ended Mexican schools
1947 – before Brown v Board of Education
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Madrigal v Quilligan Ended forced sterilization of Latina women
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Oliphant v Suquamish Indian Tribe
Tribal courts to not have power over non members
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