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26 Cards in this Set
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Port Huron Statement |
Declaration called for an end to apathy and citizens to stop accepting a country run by big corporations and big government |
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Tom Hayden |
Wrote a large amount of the Port Huron Statement he was editor of the University of Michigan's student newspaper |
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Free Speech Movement |
Led by Mario Savio and others at the University of California at Berkeley |
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Counterculture |
Whatever is against the mainstream culture flamboyant dress, rock music, drug use, and communal living |
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"Hippies" |
What they called their counterculture |
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Communes |
Group living arrangements in which members share everything and worked together |
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Haight-Ashbury District |
A popular destination for youths of the counterculture in San Francisco |
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Woodstock |
A huge Music Festival held in upstate New York in August 1969 |
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Bob Dylan |
Minnesota folk singer who became the "Voice of his generation" |
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Feminism |
The belief that men and women should be equal politically economically and socially |
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Equal Pay Act |
Outlawed paying men higher wages than women for the same job |
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Betty Friedan |
The woman who wrote the book The Feminine Mystique which led to the rise of a new feminist movement |
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National Organization for Woman |
Responded to frustrated housewives by demanding greater education opportunities for women |
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Gloria Steinem |
Editor of Ms. Magazine also worked for ERA |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
March 1972 amendments specified that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the US or by any State on account of sex" |
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Phyllis Schlafly |
Who organized the stop ERA campaign |
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Title 9 |
Prohibited federally funded school from discriminating against woman in nearly all aspects of its operation "althletic" |
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Repatriation |
The return to Mexico |
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League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) |
1929 a number of Mexican American organizations came together to make this. The purpose was to fight discrimination against persons of Latin American ancestry |
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American GI Forum |
Founded to protect the rights of Mexican American veterans |
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La Raza Unida |
"The United People" promoted latino causes and supported latino candidates in Texas, California, Colorado, Arizona, a New Mexico |
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Bilingualism |
The practice of teaching immigrant students in their own language while they also learned english |
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Bilingual Education Act |
In 1968. This act directed school districts to setup classes for immigrants in their own language while they were learning english |
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Cesar Chavez |
Merged the two movements to create the UFW |
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Dolores Huerta |
Organized a group that fought for the rights of farmworkers |
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United Farmworkers (UFW) |
Instigator boycott of table grapes from 1966 to 1970 and over 17 million americans stoped buying table grapes |
