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The Civil Rights Movements Spread Women, Hispanics, and Natives (21.2 and 21.3) You get rights! Everyone Gets Rights!!
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1 st Wave – focused on the right to vote 2 nd Wave – focused on political, social, and economic equality (1960s and 1970s) 3 rd Wave – Feminism can’t be quantified or defined The Women’s Rights Movement
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Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique “Is this all...?” Educated by economically “useless” Bored Surviving the Home Life in the 1950s
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National Organization of Women (NOW) founded by Betty Friedan in 1966 Attacked workplace and media stereotypes Fought for Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) Fought for abortion and reproductive rights NOW!
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Some found legislation process too slow Organized protests Gloria Steinem – founded Ms. Magazine Wrote expose of Playboy Clubs and the objectification of women Radical Feminism
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Gloria Steinem
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Feminists hated being defined by men (in sex, in marriage, in jobs) Phyllis Schlafly denounce “women’s liberation” as an attack on the home, family, and children A Backlash
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JFK led Commission on the Status of Women (1961) to examine workplace discrimination No laws existed Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Outlawed discrimination due to sex Title VII originally put in to stop the act Political Gains of the Movement
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Title IX (1972) Created mandate for equal funding of women’s sports Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) (1974) Illegal to deny credit to a woman because of gender Title IX and Equal Credit Opportunity Act
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Most consequential feminist victory Allowed for legal abortions Norma McCorvey (defendant) Roe v Wade (1973)
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P ercentage of women in the workforce 30% in 1950 60% in 2000 “Men’s” fields have opened to women 2004 – 76.5% disparity in pay The “Glass Ceiling” Economic Gains
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Latin and Hispanic Rights
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Massive Deportation in 1950s 1965 – Immigration and Nationality Act erases quotas on immigration Flood of immigrants Movement Begins After WWII, Hector Garcia formed the American GI Forum on Discrimination 1960s and 1970s Inspired by African Americans, Hispanics unite for equal opportunities in education, jobs, salaries, voting Legacy of the Bracero Program
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Cubans arrive after Cuba goes communist Dominicans seek asylum from politics Puerto Ricans legally come for work Mexicans come for economic opportunity The Cold War, Dictators, and Economics
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1960s: founded the United Farm Workers Union (UFWU) to protect the rights of migrant workers Organized strike on grapes to get better conditions 1975 – CA gives rights to organize Cesar Chavez
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Celebrated Latino history and culture La Raza (1968) founded to reduce poverty and improve education Brown Power Jose Gutierrez found La Raza Unida for political power The Chicano Movement
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Native American Movement
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Traditionally had high rates of poverty, unemployment, and suicide Targets of discrimination A History of Despair
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1961 – National Indian Youth Council formed Inspired by African Americans Limited to fishing rights in the Northwest Slowly developed to take on civil rights issues Early Activism
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1968 (AIM) Dennis Banks and George Mitchell found Addressed urban ghettos, civil and legal rights, autonomy The American Indian Movement (AIM)
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1969 – Trying to secure land rights, AIM occupies Alcatraz Island 100 Indians from 50 tribes held it until 1971 AIM Goes Militant
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Banks and Russell Means organized march from San Francisco to DC in 1972 Briefly seized Bureau of Indian Affairs and renamed it the Native American Embassy The “Long March” to DC
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Building on rise of public interest of 100 th anniversary of massacre AIM took over village Demand US gov’t look into poor reservation conditions 2 AIM members killed by US gov’t agents Gov’t pledges aid Siege at Wounded Knee, 1973
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1975 – Indian Self Determination Act Gave tribes greater control over resources and education on the reservations Greater land, mineral, and water rights granted Political Gains of the Movement
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