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United Farm Workers Movement
The role of Cesar Chavez, the founder of UFW, was to frame his campaigns in terms of consumer safety and involving social justice, bringing benefits to the farmworker unions. The United Farm Workers allows farmworkers to help improve their working conditions and wages. Grape pickers in 1965 were making an average of $.90/hour. At one farm the boss made the workers all drink from the same cup and at another ranch workers were forced to pay a quarter per cup. -
Equal Pay Act
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. The jobs need not be identical, but they must have equal opportunity. -
California Grape Boycott
The Delano grape strike was a labor strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike began on September 8, 1965, and lasted more than five years. Cesar insisted the Latino and Filipino strikers work together, sharing the same picket lines, strike kitchens and union hall. He asked strikers take a solemn vow to remain nonviolent. -
N.O.W.
The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization founded in 1966. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men. -
The Brown Berets
The Brown Berets are a pro-Chicano organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s founded by David Sanchez and remains active to the present day. The group was seen as part of the Third Movement for Liberation. Members wore brown berets as a symbol of unity and resistance, which inspired the organization's third name. The Brown Berets were a militant civil rights group, modeled in part on the African American Black Panther Party . -
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement advocates for urban Indian rights. A group of 200 Natives meet in Minneapolis to found the American Indian Movement, known as AIM. Growing out of the late 1960s civil rights era, its objective is to protect the rights of urban Indians. The U.S. government considers the group radical.The American Indian Movement is a Native American advocacy group in the United States, founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. -
Chicano Blowouts
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first protest took place on March 6, 1968. The bad school conditions and racism was still abundant in this part of California still. Several hundred Mexican American and Chicano students at Wilson High School initiated an impromptu walkout protest in response to the cancelation of a school play by their principal. -
Purpose and impact of the Stonewall "riots"
he Stonewall riots were a series of protests and passionate outbursts by citizens of New York City’s gay community. The New York City Police Department were targeted by the anger and injustices faced by members of the crowd. More specifically against a police raid that took place in 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in mid-Manhattan. New York’s gay community had grown exhausted of the police department targeting gay clubs. As soon as the police arrived, a crowd began to form outside the club. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
The Occupation of Alcatraz was a nineteen month long protest, when 89 American Indians and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others. John Trudell was the spokesperson. The occupation of Alcatraz Island served as a strong symbol and uniting force for indigenous peoples everywhere because of the importance the island held in their ancestors' lives. Indians traveled to Alcatraz about 10,000 years before the Europeans entered the area. -
La Raza Unida
The Raza Unida Party, officially Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida is a Chicano nationalist organization. It was created in the early 1970s and became prominent throughout Texas and Southern California. The goal of the organization was developing and strengthening other local organizations, and promoting empowerment, voter registration, leadership development, and other forms of advocacy. -
Trail of Broken Treaties
The Trail of Broken Treaties was a cross-country protest, that was staged in the autumn of 1972 in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations. From 1778 to 1871, the United States government entered into more than 500 treaties with the Native American tribes. All of these treaties have since been violated in some way or outright broken by the US government, while at least one treaty was violated or broken by Native American tribes. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. The 15 states that did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment before the 1982 deadline were Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, and many other southern states -
Phyllis Schlafly and the defeat of the ERA
Phyllis McAlpin Schlafly was an American constitutional lawyer, movement conservative, and conservative. She held staunchly conservative social and political views, supported antifeminism, opposed abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The E.R.A. was sent to the states for ratification, but it would fall short of the three-fourths approval needed. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. -
Siege at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. By 1890, the Plains Indians had lost the struggle to defend their territory and way of life against the expansionist United States. In all the midst of the chaos -
Murder of Harvey Milk and Impact
Upon learning of the assassinations, singer/songwriter Holly Near composed "Singing for Our Lives", also known as "Song for Harvey Milk". Moscone and Milk both lay in state at San Francisco City Hall. Moscone's funeral at St Mary's Cathedral was attended by 4,500 people. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. Dianne Feinstein, as president of the Board of Supervisors, acceded to the Mayor's office, becoming the first female to serve in office. -
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act is a 1988 United States federal law that establishes the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming. There was no federal gaming structure before this act. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was enacted by the United States to regulate the conduct of gaming on Indian Lands. IGRA establishes the National Indian Gaming Commission and the regulatory structure for Indian gaming in the United States. -
Repeal of Don't ask Don't tell
"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians, instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994, when Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 issued on December 21, 1993, took effect, lasting until September 20, 2011. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
Matthew was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.[1] He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he died six days later from severe head injuries. Homosexuals were furious over this horrific murder. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
