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United Farm Workers of America
The United Farm Workers was the first credit union for people who work on farms. Cesar Chaves, Dolores Huerta, and Philip Cruz are the founder of UFW. The union was made to bring safety and to the workers and consumers. They demanded things such as banning discrimination in employment and sexual harassment toward women workers and providing parental leave. This Union mainly consisted of Filipino American farmworkers. Often they would go on strike to get what they demanded. -
Purpose and Impact of the Equal Pay Act of 1963
Signed by President Kennedy in 1963 as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the law mandates equal pay for equal work by forbidding employers from paying men and women different wages or benefits for doing jobs that require the same skills and responsibilities. -
California Grape Boycott
Filipino American farm workers in Delano California, went on strike because their wages weren't to federal standards. The workers walked off the grape farms they were working on. Led by Philip Cruz, Larry Itliong, Lupe Martinez, Cesar Chavez, Richard Chaves, and Dolores Huerta. This strike went on for 5 years and ended in a victory. -
Formation and goals of N.O.W.
The President's Commission on the Status of Women was established by John F. Kennedy, in hopes of providing a solution to female discrimination in education, work force, and Social Security. Kennedy appointed Eleanor Roosevelt as the head of the organization. The goal of action was to compromise those wanting to advance women's rights in the workforce and those advocating women's domestic importance/role needing to be preserved. The commission was in a way to settle the tension of opposing sides -
Formation and Goals of Brown Berets
The Brown Berets are a pro-Chicano organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement in the late 1960s founded by David Sanchez and remains active to the present day. The group was seen as part of the Third Movement for Liberation The Brown Berets' movements largely revolved around the farm worker's struggles, educational reform, and anti-war activism; they have also organized against police brutality. Several groups have been quite active since. -
American Indian Movement
Founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. Particularly in its early years, AIM also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. -
Chicano Blowouts
Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first protest took place on March 6, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education. This movement (which involved thousands of students in the Los Angeles area) was of the first mass mobilizations by Mexican-Americans in Southern California. -
Purpose and impact of the Stonewall ‘riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
From November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, Native Americans took over and held Alcatraz Island asIndian Land. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island" was led by the Native American group, Indians of All Tribes (IAT). The take-over lasted 14-months and ended when the Indians were forcibly removed by the federal government. -
La Raza Unida
Founded by Jose Gutierrez and Mario Compean the Raza Unida Party was prominent throughout Texas and South California. They fought for equality for the Chicano and other minorities in the Democratic Party. La Raza Unida lanched electoral campaigns in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. -
Phyllis Schlafly and the defeat of the ERA
Phyllis Schlafly was an American constitutional lawyer, movement conservative, and conservative. She held staunchly conservative social and political views, supported antifeminism, opposed abortion, and successfully campaigned against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The U.S. Constitution. Schlafly co-authored books on national defense and was critical of arms control agreements with the Soviet Union. -
Trail of Broken Traties
The Trail of Broken Treaties (also known as the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan and the Pan American Native Quest for Justice ) was a cross-country protest, that was staged in the autumn of 1972 in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations. -
Introduction and goals of the equal rights Amendment
On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. -
Goals and Events of the Siege at Wounded Knee
The Wounded Knee incident began on February 27, 1973, when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The protest followed the failure of an effort of the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization to impeach tribal president Richard Wilson, whom they accused of corruption and abuse of opponents. -
Murder of Harvey Milk
In 1972, Milk moved from New York City to the Castro District of San Francisco. He took advantage of the growing political and economic power of the neighborhood to promote his interests and unsuccessfully ran three times for political office..White was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter, which was later reduced to five years. He was released in 1983 and committed suicide by carbon monoxide inhalation two years later. -
Purpose and Impact of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
The stated purposes of the act include providing a legislative basis for the operation/regulation of Indian gaming, protecting gaming as a means of generating revenue for the tribes, encouraging economic development of these tribes, and protecting the enterprises from negative influence. The law established the National Indian Gaming Commission and gave it a regulatory mandate. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard and Impact
In the evening hours of Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who was openly gay, went alone to the Fireside Lounge in Laramie after a meeting of the campus LGBT student group and a quick stop at the Village Inn. In less than two hours’ time, he became part of a chain of events that attracted international media and political attention, spotlighted the ongoing public debate over hate crime legislation. -
Repeal of Don’t ask Don’t Tell
The Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 is a landmark United States federal statute enacted in December 2010 that established a process for ending the Don't ask, don't tell thus allowing gay, lesbian, and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ending the policy in place since 1993 that allowed them to serve only if they kept their sexual orientation secret and the military did not learn of their sexual orientation. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges, is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 5–4 ruling requires all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the areas to perform and recognize the marriages of same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as the marriages of opposite-sex couples,
