Black American Rights Movement
American Indian Movement
Disabled American Rights Movement
1980's Women's Movement
Random Period 9 Questions
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The First African American President...

What is...Barack Obama?

100

Is a grassroots movement for Indigenous rights, founded in 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

What is... The American Indian Movement (AIM)?

100

ADA stands for...

What is...The Americans with Disabilities Act?

100

In 1911, California gave women the right to....

What is... to vote?

100

In 1993-94, this Policy was a compromise where to be able to serve in the military, homosexuals were told not to speak about their orientation and superiors were banned from asking them their sexuality.  

What is... Don't ask, Don't Tell?

200

After King’s assassination, Jesse Jackson launched Operation...

What is...People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH)?

200

Monitored how police and the courts treated Native Americans.

What is... AIM Patrol?

200

Section 504 banned...

What is... the discrimination on the basis of disability by recipients of federal funds?

200

Susan Faludi, a Bay Area-based writer for the Wall Street Journal, critically examined in her 1991 book..... 

What is...Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women?

200

The North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993-94, was successful in...

What is... creating a free trade zone in between the US, Canada, and Mexico. 

300

NAACP stands for...

What is... National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

300

In 2007, the UN adopted the...

 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

300

HEW stands for.....

What is... The Department of Health, Education and Welfare?

300

A former governor of California and president; was against abortion, reproduction rights, and government regulation. 

What is....Ronald Reagan?

300

 Was introduced in 1991, as part of the rise of the internet.

What is... the worldwide web?

400

Who in 1940 had represented one-third of the entire black workforce.

What is... black farm laborers, farmers, and agricultural managers

400

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples... 

What is ... enshrined the rights of Indigenous peoples to cultural and ceremonial expression, identity, language, employment, health and education into international law by a vote of 144 to 4 

400

Was first introduced in 1984 and finally passed in 1988; was referred to as CRRA.

What is... Civil Rights Restoration Act?

400

 A professor of philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, and published Women, Race, and Class.

What is...Angela Davis?

400

Bill Clinton was accused of an affair with.... 

What is... Monica Lewinsky?

500

Resulted in  black workers being employed intp blue collar jobs, with millions of them in heavy industry such as steel, automobile production, electrical and non-electrical machinery, appliances, food and tobacco manufacturing, and textiles.

What is... The Civil Rights Movement?

500

In 1972, the year after the occupation of the Milwaukee Coast Guard building, AIM founded a school called...

What is... the Heart of the Earth Survival School in Minneapolis?

500

In 1988 this act was amended by the civil rights community to improve enforcement mechanisms. As a result, for the first time disability anti-discrimination provisions were included in a traditional civil rights statute banning race discrimination.

What is... Fair Housing Act (FHA)?

500

In 1984, at the democratic convention held in San Francisco's Moscone Center, she became the first woman nominated as vice president by a major political party.

What is...Geraldine Ferraro?

500

In 1992 this event shined light on the cruel reality of police brutality and caused an uproar when the officers were found not guilty. 

What is... The Rodney King Riots?

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