Hispanic Culture
La Raza Unida was a Mexican American
political party
A rock festival that drew hundreds of thousands of people in 1969 was at
Woodstock.
The book Unsafe at Any Speed led to
safety standards for car designs.
celebration that marked the beginning of the environmental movement
Earth Day
Many of the new religious groups of the 1960s centered around
authoritarian leaders.
policy that prompted “white flight” to private schools
busing
What was the goal of the American Indian Movement?
Revitalization of Native American culture
Who was Rachel Carson?
the environmentalist who wrote Silent Spring
youth culture that represented a rebellion against the dominant culture
hippie
The Indian Civil Rights Act
recognized the legitimacy of local reservation law.
claim that qualified white workers were kept from jobs
reverse discrimination
After 1920 the women’s movement split into two camps with opposing views on
laws protecting women.
At Love Canal, residents experienced health problems because
an old toxic waste dump under the community was leaking into the ground.
For her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan interviewed Smith College graduates and found that most of the women
reported having everything they could want, but still felt unfulfilled.
In Bakke v . University of California Regents, the Supreme Court ruled that
schools could use race but not quotas for determining admissions.
Some opponents of bilingualism argued that
bilingual education made it more difficult for a child to adjust to American culture
The youth movement included
the Port Huron statement.
The incident at Three Mile Island left many people in great doubt about the
safety of nuclear energy.
The part of the Educational Amendments that prohibited federally funded schools from discriminating against girls and young women
Title IX.
Affirmative action called for companies and institutions to
actively recruit African American employees.
To push for better wages and benefits for farmworkers, César Chávez organized a successful
grape boycott.
The Free Speech Movement was sparked by restrictions on students’ rights to
distribute literature and recruit volunteers for political causes.
kills insects and the birds that eat them
DDT
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that
states could not regulate abortion in the first three months of pregnancy.
In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that
busing was constitutional.