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Uniting farm workers
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Why were women treated differently than men?
Men thought women were weaker
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Why was Obama becoming president an achievement for civil rights?
Because he is the first African American president to be elected president.
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What is the difference between a protest and a sit in?
A protest is where you create signs and march for what you believe in... A sit in is where you refuse to leave, based on your beliefs.
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Who is Wing Luke?
Wing Luke was the first Asian American to be elected to public office.
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What did Martin Luther King Jr and Cesar Chavez believe in together?
Non violent protests.
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What is it called when woman are treated different?
Feminism
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Why couldn't black people sit in the same room as white people?
Because white people thought they were better than black people.
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What kind of protest refuses to buy or use the products or services who's products that are disliked?
Boycott
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Who is Carl Maxey?
He was the first African American attorney in Spokane.
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Who organized the nation wide boycott of California grapes?
Cesar Chavez
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Who is the first native American woman to organize the protest at Fort Lawton in 1970?
Bernie Whitebear
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What does the term minority mean?
it refers to a group that differs in race, religion, gender, or ethnic background from a dominant group.
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Is civil disobedience a form of non violent or violent protest?
Non violent.
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What act happened in 1964?
The civil rights act prohibited any kind of discrimination in public places.
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Before the 1970'S what did Mexican -American citizens need to prove in order to vote?
That they could read English.
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What was the goal of the feminist movement?
To gain equal rights, including equal opportunity.
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Why did Mexicans (Chicanos) come to the United states?
They came as part of the Bracero program to harvest crops.
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What action resulted in another supreme court ruling that banned this on busses?
Segregation
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What did the voting right act do for Black voters?
The voting rights act eliminated literacy tests for black voters.
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In Othello and other farming towns what race soon made up more than half of the population?
Mexican-American
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Why did people work to add equal rights amendment (ERA) to the U.S. constitution?
To guarantee that neither men or women would be denied any right on the basis of gender.
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Why did Mexicans come to the U.S.?
To escape poverty in Mexico.
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Who legalized segregation?
Jim Crow
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Who is Gary Locke?
The first Asian American governor.
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What university showed their support of the California grape strike?
University of Washington. GO DAWGS!!!!!