1. Civil Rights Reading Notes

2. Sources Reading from textbook Reading 1: Chicano, Native American. Feminism, Civil Rights Legislation and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Reading 2: Proclamation Reading 3: 10 Point Program Reading 4: Mattachine Society Directions: 1. Divide readings 2. Each person keeps track of groups, reasons for protesting, what the group did and the outcome. 3. Prepare for quiz

3. 1. African Americans were the only group fighting for change? Yes or No and 1 sentence explaination

4. 2. The federal government never responded to the needs of the groups cited in the reading? Yes or No and provide evidence

5. 3. Create a chart showing the similar tactics used by at least three groups.

6. 4. Equal rights for everyone make a society better. Agree or Disagree Identify current groups facing inequality

7. 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

8. Notes Native Americans 1.800,000 during 1960s 2.Considered a separate nation but that nation experiences extreme poverty. Compare to Richard Oaks Proclamation. 3.Their culture is dying, thus the need for a cultural education center 4.AIM and Indian of All Tribes fighting for above causes Alcatraz Link https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=adpVf6yMlew Richard Oaks https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=7QNfUE7hBUc Women 1.More working but most in unskilled jobs 2.Image of the American housewife 3.Equal Rights Amendment 1970s (see slide) 4.Roe v. Wade Miss America https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=a wCRaGkowjY Mexican 1.Many come to America through the Bracero Program for agricultural labor 2.Cesar Chavez trying to improve working conditions 3.Brown Berets organize against police brutality and to improve education Play Clip at 9:30 then 21:00 https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=NL4rQH Kza9Y Homosexuals 1950- 1960s 1.Blue discharge 2.Executive Order 10450 3.Lavender Scare 4.Entrapment 5.Beatings and entrapment 6.Mattachine Society Stonewall Sexual Revolution 3 hour 3 min=psychiatric disorder Stonewall 40 Years Later https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=mTujTI8rGB g https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=mTujTI8rGB g Gay PSA https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=17u01_sWj RE Harvey Milk https://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=XVlxq7wqge U

9. 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

10. ERA Passed 1972 Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date of ratification.

11. Closure How would your life be different if you were a high school teenager in the 1940s before the civil rights movement?