1. Notes 4: Other Civil Rights Movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s
Unit 5 – Civil Rights
June 3, 2013

2. Latino Rights

3. Chicano American Movement
Focus
Basic civil rights: voting, protection from police violence
Changing what was taught in history education in schools
Quality of education for Latino Americans and bilingual education
The high minority draft rate in Vietnam
Actions
Protests
Student Walkouts (Blowouts) – 1968 East LA and elsewhere
Accomplishments
Bilingual education
Increase of Latino Americans in politics and activism
Brown Berets – worked in local communities – set up the East LA Free Clinic

4. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers
Focus
Protecting the rights of farm workers
Actions
Strikes and Economic Boycotts
1966 Grape Boycott
1970 Salad Bowl Strike
Accomplishments
1975 California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which gave collective bargaining rights to farm workers

5. Young Lords – Puerto Rican Americans
Focus
Improving access to services in Puerto Rican neighborhoods
Stopping the removal of Puerto Ricans from their neighborhoods (Chicago)
Actions
What were two examples of actions the Young Lords took?
Accomplishments
Look at the last page of your reading, what were two examples of their accomplishments?

6. American Indian Movement

7. Red Power
Focus
Began in Minnesota in 1968 to address issues of Native American life at the time: poverty, housing, police abuse

8. Red Power Actions
Red Power Movement occupied Alcatraz Island for 19 months to reclaim traditional Native American Land
1972 “Trail of Broken Treaties” protest in Washington. Seized Bureau of Indian Affairs and presented list of problems
1973: 71 day armed standoff at Wounded Knee
1978: The Longest Walk from Alcatraz to DC to protest laws they felt would hurt Native Americans

9. Red Power Accomplishments
According to PBS: “The occupation [of Alcatraz] also succeeded in getting the federal government to end its policy of termination and adopt an official policy of Indian self-determination. From to 1971, Congress passed 52 legislative proposals on behalf of American Indians to support tribal self-rule. President Nixon increased the BIA budget by 225 percent, doubled funds for Indian health care and established the Office of Indian Water Rights. Also during Nixon's presidency, scholarship funds were increased by $848,000 for college students. The Office of Equal Opportunity provided more funds for economic development and drug and alcohol recovery programs and expanded housing, health care and other programs.”
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975: Allows Tribes to decide how to use Federal Funds themselves

10. Second Wave Feminism
1960’s-1980’s

11. Second Wave Feminism Focus Events /Actions
Where the first wave focused on suffrage, the second wave focused on equality in society, the economy, and education
Events /Actions
The Birth Control Pill receives FDA approval in1960
Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique in 1963
Attacks society’s portrayal of women as housewives and the “cult of domesticity”
The National Organization for Women (NOW) founded 1966
1968 Miss America Protest
Burning of typically female products – the anti-feminists called it bra- burning

12. Second Wave Feminism Accomplishments Not Accomplished Title IX 1972
Senator Birch Bayh exercises with Title IX athletes at Purdue University
Accomplishments
Title IX 1972
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance...
Affects access to education including funding for women’s sports
Roe v Wade 1973
Supreme Court Case that legalized abortion
Not Accomplished
The ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) failed to be ratified
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

13. Gay Rights

14. Gay Rights Focus Equal Rights
Educators (and others) who were gay were usually fired
Bars that catered to gays were shut down and newspapers would publish lists of people who went there
FBI and Post Office tracked those they thought were gay
You could be arrested and jailed for being caught in a gay relationship
Medical associations classified being gay as a disease / mental illness

15. Gay Rights Action: Sip In 1966
The Mattachine Society staged a “sip-in” at a bar in Greenwich Village because the New York Liquor Authority would not allow bars to serve gay patrons
Accomplishments:
New York City Commission on Human Rights acknowledged that gay people had the right to be served in bars

16. Gay Rights Action Stonewall Riot – June 28, 1969
After another police raid on the Stonewall Inn (a gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC), patrons and people in the neighborhood started a three-day riot on the police who tried to raid the club
Accomplishments:
Stonewall led to the beginning of media coverage and the formation of Gay Rights Groups

17. Gay Rights Accomplishments
 On June 28, 1970, the first Gay Pride marches took place in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall riot
1973, the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (they no longer saw being gay as a mental illness)
NYC Gay Pride Parade 1976