Mexicans and Latinos
This person used nonviolent means to organize Mexican-American farm workers.
Who was César Chávez?
This act gave greater control over the education of Native Americans to Native American tribes.
What is the Indian Education Act?
The modern feminist movement became more organized and focused after the passage of this.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The members of this movement were mostly white, middle-class college youths.
What is the counterculture movement?
During the 1960s, the counterculture movement embraced this as its loud and biting anthem of protest.
What is rock ’n’ roll?
The event that was most responsible for Chávez’s group gaining negotiating power was this.
What is a national boycott?
In the 1970s, this group organized occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
What is the American Indian Movement?
The slogan “Equal Pay for Equal Work” is likely to be associated with this belief.
What is feminism?
This was the band that, perhaps more than any other, helped propel rock music into mainstream America.
Who were the Beatles?
In the 1960s, this journalist, political activist, and ardent supporter of the women’s liberation movement, made her voice heard on the subjects of feminism and equality
Who was Gloria Steinem?
In the 1970s, this group focused its efforts on electing Latinos to public office.
What is La Raza Unida?
This is the right that Native American groups focused on in the 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose.
What is self-determination?
Early efforts of this group focused on bringing about changes in the workplace, including ending gender discrimination in hiring.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
This area in San Francisco is sometimes described as “the hub of hippie life” in the 1960s.
What is Haight-Asbury?
The group known as this was most likely to oppose the positions of the women’s movement on a variety of issues.
What is the New Right?
Aa national boycott was most responsible for this group earning higher wages and better benefits for farm workers?
What is the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)?
In 1954, this president's administration enacted a “termination” policy that did not respect Native American culture and relocated them from isolated reservations into mainstream urban American life.
Who was Eisenhower?
This person became well known for her efforts to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who was Phyllis Schlafly?
These people placed the blame for the increasing permissiveness in society on campus rebels and the counterculture.
Who are Conservatives?
The New Right played a key role in helping this person become president in 1980.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
In 1968, Congress enacted this, which provided funds for schools to develop bilingual and cultural heritage programs for non-English-speaking children.
What is the Bilingual Education Act?
In 1970, this Native American tribe of New Mexico regained possession of their sacred Blue Lake, as well as a portion of its surrounding forestland
Who were the Taos?
This person helped call attention to women’s needs by writing the book The Feminine Mystique.
Who was Betty Friedan?
Influenced by the nonconformist beat movement of the 1950s, hippies embraced the credo of this Harvard psychology professor and counterculture philosopher who said: “Tune in, turn on, drop out.”
Who was Timothy Leary?
In what seemed at first to be another triumph for the women’s movement, Congress passed this in 1972, however it lacked ratification by the required 38 states.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?