Black Power
Mainstream accounts of the Black Power movement tend to focus on this tactic.
What is the use of violence and property destruction?
In suburban homes, women were expected to fulfill this role while men worked.
What is homemaker or housewife?
One demand of the 1968 Chicano student walkouts was for classes in school to be taught in this language.
What is Spanish?
This bar, frequented by LGBTQ+ people in New York City, gave its name to a 1969 riot that was pivotal in the early movement for gay rights.
What was the Stonewall Inn?
This problem was the immediate cause of the 1965 Watts Riots.
What is police brutality?
What was work outside the home?
What are Mexican contributions to society and culture?
According to Sylvia Rivera, this group was involved in the civil rights struggle, the anti-war movement, and the women's movement - but was still "outcast."
Who were trans people?
This group provided free breakfast and educational programs at its Los Angeles community center.
Who were the Black Panthers?
What is politics?
What is vocational education (or job training)?
Many young LGBTQ+ people in New York City had this problem, making gay bars where they could hang out all night an important safe haven.
What is homelessness?
This, according to the creator of the Kwanzaa holiday, included Thinking Black, Talking Black, Acting Black, Creating Black, Buying Black, Voting Black, and Living Black.
What is the Seven-fold path of Blackness?
From 1950 to 1960, the number of women doing this increased by about 10 percentage points, in part due to the rising cost of living.
What is working outside the home?
What are cleaning the school (or janitorial services) and corporal punishment?
During the 1969 riot, LGBTQ+ people used this controversial tactic.
What is fighting/throwing things at police?
According to Angela Davis, the Black Power movement needed to focus on this, not just common skin color.
What is a class analysis (or critique of capitalism)?
While well-off, white, suburban women often felt social pressure to stay in the home, these women had long been pressured to have jobs outside the home.
Who were poor and non-white women?
In 1968, Chicano students chose a walk-out as their tactic, because schools got funding based on the number of students who did this.
What is attended/were present in homeroom?
Bars that catered to gay people in the 1960s often could not get these, making them targets for extortion and police raids.
What were liquor licenses?