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42 Cards in this Set
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Betty Friedan
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Women's Rights Activist/Author
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Equal Pay Act
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(1963) Federal law that made it illegal for employers to pay female workers less than male workers for the same job.
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National Organization for Women
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(NOW) Women's rights group: formed in 1966 to pressure elected officials to ensure social and political equality for women.
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Gloria Steinem
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Women's Rights Activist/Author/Journalist
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National Women's Political Caucus
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Group founded by Gloria Steinem and others in 1971 to encourage women to run for political offices.
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Education Amendments Act
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(1972) Federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in higher education.
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Phyllis Schlafly
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Critic who opposed the ERA
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Bella Abzug
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New York representative, that was a supporter of women's issues in Congress.
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Shirley Chisholm
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First African American woman elected to Congress, and first African American woman to run for president.
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Cesar Chavez
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Led the NFWA
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Dolores Huerta
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Helped to form NFWA
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La Huelga
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(1965-70) Successful strike by migrant farmworkers in California against grape growers; led by Cesar Chavez.
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United Farm Workers
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Group formed in the 1960s to improve working conditions for migrant farmworkers.
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Reies Lopez Tijerina
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Led the Alianza Federal de Mercedes
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Alianza Federal de Mercedes
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Federal Alliance of Land Grants; group led by Reies Lopez Tijerina to try to regain land taken from Mexican Americans.
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Brown Berets
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Activist group formed in 1967 in response to police treatment of Mexican Americans.
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Rodolfo Gonzales
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Leading figures in the Chicano movement.
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Crusade for Justice
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Group founded in 1966 by Rodolfo Gonzales to promote Mexican American nationalism.
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Mexican American Youth Organization
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(MAYO)
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Jose Angel Gutierrez
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Founded MAYO
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La Raza Unida Party
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Mexican American Political Party formed by Jose Angel Gutierrez in the late 1960s.
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American Indian Movement
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Organization formed in 1968 to fight for the rights of American Indians
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Russell Means
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Prominent figure in AIM
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Ed Roberts
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A quadriplegic who had polio
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Rehabilitation Act
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(1973) Federal law forbidding discrimination in education, jobs, or housing because of physical disabilities.
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Education For All Handicapped Children Act
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(1975) Federal law requiting public schools to provide education for children with physical and mental disabilities.
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American Association of Retired Persons
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Largest lobbying group on behalf of senior citizens; founded in 1958.
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Gray Panthers
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Activist group for senior citizen's rights; founded by Maggie Kuhn in 1970.
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Maggie Kuhn
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Founded the Gray Panthers
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Older Americans Act
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(19650 LAW COMMITTIN THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE THE ELDERLY WITH ADEQUATE INCOME AND MEDICAL CARE.
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Children's Defense Fund
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Children's rights organization founded in 1973.
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Marian Wright Edelman
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Director of the Children's Defense Fund
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Generation Gap
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Difference in years, attitudes, and cultural beliefs between generations; applied to baby boomers and their elders during the 1960s.
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Mario Savio
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Student Activist
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Countercoulture
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Alternative lifestyle for example; the culture for the hippies in the 1960s.
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Pop Art
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Movement that challenged the values of traditional art by taking inspiration from popular culture.
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British Invasion
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Introduction of new British bands to Americans in the 1960s.
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Joan Baez
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Folk Artist
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Bob Dylan
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Folk Artist
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James Brown
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Dynamic Artist of the Era.
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Aretha Franklin
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Queen of Soul
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Woodstock
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Rock concert near Woodstock, New York, that marked the high point of the counterculture era.
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