African Americans had fought for their equalities for many years. One group known for its efforts in the fight was the National Association of Advancement for Colored People (NAACP). The NAACP fought to undermine the premise of the separate-but-equal doctrine of segregation. The most well know case to put an end to this way of life came from the 1950’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas case where ultimately, “Chief Justice Earl Warren’s Court ruled unanimously that separate educational facilities… resulted in inherently unequal education” (Schaller, 930). This lead to nine black students trying to attend classes at the all white Central High School of Little Rock, Arkansas with federal court order. They walked through a crowd of
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In 1965, 5,000 members of the National Farm Workers Association, including leaders Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta, formed a strike against grape growers. The boycott against grapes started in Delano, California and eventually spread throughout the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean into the United Kingdom. This was the event that gave worldwide headlines to the movement for Mexican Americans rights. Five years prior to this, “...one-third of Mexican Americans lived below the poverty line, and the employment rate was double that of whites” (Schaller, 961). This international boycott was to brought to light in order to show how Mexican Americans were essential to the farming industry, yet forced to remain submissive, causing many families to be put through such hard times. Alongside Mexican and African Americans in the fight for equality were Native American Indians. In the 1960s, the federal government had made efforts to try and force Native Americans into living a more American life, but resulted in great unemployment and Indians living in impoverished neighborhoods where they were separated from their families and ultimately their culture. In February of 1973, Native Americans took their stand at Wounded Knee, for they were about to be “...obliterated culturally. Our spiritual way of life—our entire way of life was about to be stamped out” as said by Russell Means, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader (Wounded Knee). For 71 days, Indian tribes from all over the nation came to join in the protest against their heritage at Wounded Knee, a location of a past Indian massacre on reservation land that has been taken from the Native Americans. For each of those 71 days, media from all over the world covered
In 1965, 5,000 members of the National Farm Workers Association, including leaders Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta, formed a strike against grape growers. The boycott against grapes started in Delano, California and eventually spread throughout the United States and across the Atlantic Ocean into the United Kingdom. This was the event that gave worldwide headlines to the movement for Mexican Americans rights. Five years prior to this, “...one-third of Mexican Americans lived below the poverty line, and the employment rate was double that of whites” (Schaller, 961). This international boycott was to brought to light in order to show how Mexican Americans were essential to the farming industry, yet forced to remain submissive, causing many families to be put through such hard times. Alongside Mexican and African Americans in the fight for equality were Native American Indians. In the 1960s, the federal government had made efforts to try and force Native Americans into living a more American life, but resulted in great unemployment and Indians living in impoverished neighborhoods where they were separated from their families and ultimately their culture. In February of 1973, Native Americans took their stand at Wounded Knee, for they were about to be “...obliterated culturally. Our spiritual way of life—our entire way of life was about to be stamped out” as said by Russell Means, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and former American Indian Movement (AIM) leader (Wounded Knee). For 71 days, Indian tribes from all over the nation came to join in the protest against their heritage at Wounded Knee, a location of a past Indian massacre on reservation land that has been taken from the Native Americans. For each of those 71 days, media from all over the world covered