Women
This person spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment, claiming that women should stay at home and raise their children.
Phyllis Schlafly
Which President desegregated the military?
President Harry Truman
This person was a teacher in an impoverished farm community and worked with Cesar Chavez to fight for Latino rights.
Dolores Huerta
What is one method and example of Native Americans trying to achieve their goals?
Protests and pursuing court cases:
Occupation of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee
What event helped spark the LGBT rights movement?
The Stonewall Inn riots
The lawyers in this Supreme Court case claimed to be protecting an individual's right to privacy.
Roe v. Wade
This Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education
To gain political power, this Chicano organization wanted to give people another choice of the major political parties.
La Raza Unida
This organization set up urban centers and found jobs and housing for Native Americans displaced by the termination policy
American Indian Movement (AIM)
This person founded the Black Power movement.
Stokely Carmichael
This grassroots organization fought for women's right to fair pay among other things. Betty Friedan was one of its founders.
NOW- National Organization for Women
This was the person that the NAACP used to test the segregated bus law in Montgomery.
Rose Parks
Latino farm workers were fighting, protesting and boycotting for what?
Better wages, treatment and working conditions
This purpose of this protest was to demand that the federal government make good on treaties that they had signed in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The occupation at Wounded Knee
This person helped protect gays and lesbians from losing their jobs because of their sexual orientation
Harvey Milk
She founded Ms. Magazine, a successful magazine that focused on life and politics from a woman's perspective.
Gloria Steinem
This was the goal of the Freedom Riders?
To test the federal law (Supreme Court case Boynton v. VA) that is supposed to outlaw segregation on transportation facilities.
This person became a voice of the Chicano movement with their poem I Am Joaquin, a statement about the complex history of Mexican Americans' lives in the United States.
Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
Many Native Americans refused to do this in the 1950s and 1960s.
Assimilate into mainstream American society.
ONE strategy that BOTH African Americans and Latino Americans used to protest. Provide an example for each.
Boycott or nonviolent protest:
African Americans- Montgomery Bus Boycott
Latino Americans- Grape Boycott
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Name ONE of California's Senators today.
Dianne Feinstein
Kamala Harris
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was missing this important component for African American rights.
Voting Rights- They came in the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
This World War II program brought million of Mexican farmworkers to America.
The Bracero Program
This document listed the major issues facing Native Americans and called for a policy of greater self determination.
The Declaration of Indian Purpose
Name the three branches of government and ONE person that works in each branch.
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