we want our civil rights!

We want our civil rights!

Civil Rights Act of 1964Outlaws discrimination in employment based on race religion, nationality or sex.

Public accommodations

Voting

ToolAttorney General could withhold federal money from state programs

Educational Reform• 5.   WE WANT education for our people that exposes the true nature of this

decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. Black Panther Party

• 4. A Great Indian Training School will be developed to teach our people how to make a living in the world, improve our standard of living, and to end hunger and unemployment among all our people. This training school will include a center for Indian arts and crafts, and an Indian restaurant serving native foods. Indians of Alcatraz

• We also started working on the problems of the bad school conditions and the racist educational system. Our schools were old and in bad condition, with high drop out, or push out, rates and racist administrators and teachers. Over time, we started agitating for bilingual education, better school conditions, Chicano studies and more Chicano teachers. Carlos Montes Brown Berrets

Mexican AmericansBracero Program Encouraged Migration during

WWIIMexican American Political Association (MAPA)

organized in 1960 to elect Mexican AmericansBrown Berets: Group considered radical but

organized to fight against police brutality and improve Mexican communities. aligned with SNCC to protest Vietnam War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL4rQHKza9Y

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

Changes: California farm workers have the right to have government supervised union elections and judicial support to settle disputes with growers.

Farmers vs. Growers (owners): In 1971 growers supported Proposition 22 which outlawed boycotts and limited secret elections. Proposition was defeated with the help of Chavez.

Chavez supported a Bill of Rights for all members regardless of legal status in United States

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Native Americans

Want federal treaties enforced. Conducted Fish-ins. Thanks Jazmyn Berkeley

800,000 in 1960Unemployment 10 times national averageLeast access to educationNational Council of American Indianshttp://www.ncai.org/about-ncai/mission-history

Alcatraz Demands

1. 1868 Treaty with Sioux Nation states, “any federal land not being used automatically goes back to the Indians.”

2. Alcatraz not being used3. Ricahrd Oakes a college student suggests taking

Alcatraz and argued, “the system never offered me anything that had to do with being Indian…All they wanted…was…to make me into a White Indian

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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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Women National Organization for Women “We want full participation into society”

Women’s Rights Branch Women’s Liberation Branch

Older Younger college studentsPolitically active Working with other groupsWorking Called the “new left”Goal: Use the system for change Goal: Separatist and more

hostile

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?'' '

Other IssuesEqual Pay ActCivil Rights ActEqual Credit OpportunityTitle IX: Colleges and universities receiving

federal funds cannot discriminate based on sex

Roe v. Wade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awCRaGkowjY

Identify the ImageBetty Friedan

No bra burning but bra burning compared to the burning of draft cards

Malcolm X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTOn8JtN4c0

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

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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGvX4vgCjQ

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Great SocietyI wanted a Great Society that

addressed poverty, the environment, race

and other social issues but that damn

war in Veyetnaam ruined my reputation