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organized a group that fought for the rights of farmworkers, which eventually merged with a group created by César Chávez
Dolores Huerta
folk singer who was an important voice in the counterculture
Bob Dylan
. United Farm Workers leader who held a hunger strike in 1968 to support farmworkers
César Chávez
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 outlawed
paying men more than women for the same job.
To push for better wages and working conditions for farmworkers, César Chávez organized a successful what?
national boycott on grapes.
Beginning in the 1950s, large numbers of Puerto Ricans and immigrants from ____________________ arrived in the United States.
Cuba
For much of the twentieth century, ethnic Mexicans in California and the U.S. Southwest were segregated into barrios and also faced what kind of discrimination?
employment
The Equal Rights Amendment failed to become part of the Constitution because
not enough states ratified the amendment by the deadline.
Although the counterculture of the 1960s did not achieve its utopian ideals, it had a lasting influence on what?
fashion and music in the US
Students involved in the free speech movement at the University of California at Berkeley demonstrated by holding ______________ and stopping classes.
sit-ins
editor of Ms. and a leading figure in the women’s movement
Gloria Steinem
What development helped revitalize the women’s movement in the early 1960s?
creation of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Latino organizations formed in the 1960s included the United Farm Workers, the Mexican American Youth Organization, and
La Raza Unida.
At what university did the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) begin?
University of Michigan
Hippie communities in which everyone shared their goods in common and worked together were called
communes.
Issued in 1962, the Port Huron Statement expressed the views of the what group?
Students for a Democratic Society.
outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment
Phyllis Schlafly
author of The Feminine Mystique and a founder of the National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
What was the primary purpose for the Equal Rights Amendment?
to ban all gender discrimination
What was repatriation?
the deportation of Mexican immigrants and their American-born children
leader in the Mexican American Youth Organization and La Raza Unida
José Angel Gutiérrez
Title IX, a section of a law passed in 1972, prohibited
federally-funded schools from discriminating against women in nearly all aspects of operations.
What event in the early twentieth century caused a massive influx of immigrants from Mexico to America?
Mexican Revolution
How did the Bilingual Act of 1968 assist Latino Americans?
It forced school districts to teach students in their native language while they were learning English.
In what document did the SDS define its views on the Vietnam War, poverty, and social justice?
the Port Huron Statement