Counterculture
Another name for members of the counterculture.
What are hippies?
The theory that women and men should have political, social and economic equality.
What is feminism?
The movement to promote Mexican American social and political issues and culture.
What is the Chicano Movement?
An act to reduce water pollution by industry and agriculture.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The children and grandchildren of the parents of the 1950s who were interested in spontaneity and individuality.
What are the baby boomers?
The lack of understanding and communication between older and younger members of society.
What is the generation gap?
An invisible (often unacknowledged) barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and minorities.
What is the glass ceiling?
They formed groups such as the National Congress of American Indians and the American Indian Movement.
Who are the Native Americans (or American Indians)?
An act that combated air pollution by limiting the emissions from factories and automobiles.
What is the Clean Air Act?
A federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in education, often used with regard to sports programs but applies to all areas of education when the educational institution receives federal funds.
What is Title IX?
What is Woodstock?
An amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee gender equality under the law.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?
He is the most influential Latino activist.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Close to 20 million Americans took part in this annual event first held on April 22, 1970.
What is Earth Day?
People who travel from farm to farm to pick fruits and vegetables.
What are migrant farm workers?
Small communities where people with common interests live and share resources.
What are communes?
A reference to jobs dominated by women; often these jobs are low paying and offer little or no opportunity for advancement.
What is the "pink collar ghetto?"
A labor union which implemented a strike and boycott of grapes that secured safer working conditions for migrant farm workers.
What is the United Farm Workers (UFW)?
Published in 1962 by Rachel Carson that inspired environmental activism.
What is "Silent Spring?"
A book written by Ralph Nader that investigated the link between flawed car design and deaths in automobile accidents.
What is "Unsafe at Any Speed?"
The center of counterculture where hippies experimented with drugs and listened to rock music and speeches by political radicals.
What is the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco?
An organization established by Betty Friedan which sought to win equality for women.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
A group founded in 1968 to ease poverty and help secure legal rights and self-government for Native Americans.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
An agency created to protect "the entire ecological chain" that worked to eliminate pollutants that posed a risk to the public's health.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969
What is the Stonewall Riots?