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Social Change Movements and Organizations of the 1960

Social Change Movements and Organizations of the 1960. Time For Change. MLK and others found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Want to create change through non-violent protest.

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Social Change Movements and Organizations of the 1960

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  1. Social Change Movements and Organizations of the 1960 Time For Change

  2. MLK and others found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Want to create change through non-violent protest By 1960, African-American students think pace of change too slow, they begin to Join Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Members of SNCC use a more confrontational approach then the SCLC (Example: Sit-ins and Freedom Rides) SCLC and SNCC

  3. Women shut out of jobs considered “men’s work” Jobs available to women pay poorly JFK’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women finds: women paid far less than men for doing same job women seldom promoted to management positions (Glass-Ceiling) Women in the Workplace

  4. Feminism- belief that there should be economic, political, and social equality for men and women The Creation of NOW: Civil rights laws, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission help women 1966 National Organization for Women(NOW) founded Women’s Rights

  5. Thousands of workers on vegetable and fruit farms work for little pay and no benefits César Chávez helps form United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) 1965 grape growers do not recognize union Chávez sets up non-violent boycott’s In 1970, the Grape Growers finally recognize the UFWOC The Farm Worker Movement

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