The Impact of the Civil Rights

1. The Impact of the Civil Rights By: Stefan Earl Emile Rodney and Richard Shane Allison

2. American Indian Movement: Synopsis • The American Indian Movement (AIM), is a Native American activist organization in the United States. AIM burst on the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. AIM was co founded by Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, and many others in 1968.

3. American Indian Movement: Purpose • In 1961, more than 400 representatives of 67 Native American nations met in Chicago to draw up a bill of rights for Native Americans. They called it the Declaration of Indian Purpose, and in it they committed themselves to Indian nationalism and intertribal unity. As a result, in 1968, the Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act, Which guaranteed Native American reservation dwellers some of the rights provided to other citizens under the Bill of Rights.

4. The Feminist Movement: Synopsis • Women constituted more than 50 percent of the population of the United States in the 1970’s. However, their political, economic, legal, and social status resembled that of a disadvantaged minority.

5. The Feminist: Purpose • The Feminist movement was about one thing back then, equality. In 1972 Congress voted to submit the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the States for ratification. However not all women were in favor of the ERA, in fact Phyllis Schlafly is the founder of STOP ERA. She called the ERA women supporters “ a series of sharp - tongued, high – pitched, whining complaints by unmarried women. As a result of a vigorous campaign by STOP ERA and other groups, the Equal Rights Amendment failed to obtain the votes needed for ratification

6. Hispanic Activism • At this time, Hispanics also became active in campaigning for equal rights. By the 1970’s Hispanic Americans had become the second largest minority in the United States, next to the African Americans.

7. Lessons learned from Civil Rights Movement • Lesson 1: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. • Lesson 2: Economic rights can't be separated from civil rights. • Lesson 3: Ordinary people can change the world. • Lesson 4: Culture can enslave or empower. • Lesson 5: Right makes might.

8. Credits. Stefan Earl Emile Rodney, Richard Shane Allison, Martin Luther King Jr (R.I.P), Malcolm X(R.I.P), and Others Who fought Injustice anywhere so justice could be spread everywhere