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We want our civil rights!

We want our civil rights!. Civil Rights Act of 1964. Outlaws discrimination in employment based on race religion, nationality or sex. Public accommodations Voting Tool Attorney General could withhold federal money from state programs. Mexican Americans.

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We want our civil rights!

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  1. We want our civil rights!

  2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Outlaws discrimination in employment based on race religion, nationality or sex. Public accommodations Voting Tool Attorney General could withhold federal money from state programs

  3. Mexican Americans Bracero Program Encouraged Migration during WWII Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) organized in 1960 to elect Mexican Americans Brown Berets: Group considered radical but organized to fight against police brutality and improve Mexican communities. aligned with SNCC to protest Vietnam War

  4. Cesar Chavez creates United Farmer Workers and leads a strike and nationwide boycott of table grapes. UFW was recognized as a union in 1970.

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  6. Native Americans 800,000 in 1960 Unemployment 10 times national average Least access to education National Council of American Indians http://www.ncai.org/about-ncai/mission-history

  7. American Indian Movement considered a radical wing of Native American groups. In 1969 ALCATRAZ ISLAND occupied for 19 months. AIM was there when United Indians of All Tribes reclaimed federal land in the name of Native Nations http://www.aimovement.org/ggc/history.html

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  9. Women National Organization for Women “We want full participation into society” Women’s Rights Branch Women’s Liberation Branch Older Younger college students Politically active Working with other groups Working Called the “new left” Goal: Use the system for change Goal: Separatist and more hostile

  10. Feminism Ignites again Feminist Mystique 1963 book by Betty Friedan examines the trap of the housewife Text 'Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - ''Is this all?'' '

  11. Other Issues Equal Pay Act Civil Rights Act Equal Credit Opportunity Title IX: Colleges and universities receiving federal funds cannot discriminate based on sex Roe v. Wade

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  13. Gay Rights Mattachine Society: Founded in 1950s with the goal of educating the public Homosexuality linked to security risk in Executive Orders 10450 Local and State Laws targeted homosexuals

  14. Stonewall Riots 1969: known gay bar in NYC targeted by the NYPD Morals Squad. Gay demonstrators force the NYPD into the bar. Outcome leads to some openness regardinig homosexuality as well as the creation of more groups Gay Liberation Front: Organized after Stonewall and considered radical. Allied with other movement.

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