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United Farm Workers Movement
The United Farm Workers Movement was led by two men named Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. This movement changed from a workers rights organization into a union due to all the strikes that occurred in the year of 1965. This union fought against the hardships they had to face in the fields by using non violent tactics such as boycotting in major cities and going on Strike. -
Equal Pay Act 1963
The purpose of the Equal Pay Act was to establish equal pay for men and women. It prohibited sex discrimination by employers and made them look more at skill, hard work and responsibility. How the government was able to support equal pay was by having guaranteed coverage of the money made and if underpaid one was able to report this. This law helped a lot to establish women in the American working society. -
California Grape Boycott
The Grape Boycott started on September 8, 1965 in Delano California. This boycott was lead by the Agricultural Workers Organization Committee and the United Farm Workers. The goal was to achieve better pay and working conditions. This strike lasted over 5 years and after it was over they gained cold drinking water in the field, scheduled break periods, wage control and much more. -
National Organization for Women (N.O.W.)
The National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) was founded by a group of activists. The main goal was to end sex discrimination and find a better life for women. This organization now has over 500,000 followers and they are all over the 50 states. They more targeted changing popular opinion than law. -
American Indian Movement
American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The goals of this movement started with helping the American Indians establish a reasonable form of government in our land. It also was made to confront treaty issues and spirituality. In the first few years, they tried to occupy Alcatraz. -
Chicano "Blowouts"
The Chicano Blowouts or East L.A. walkouts were a series of protests by students against unequal education. These walkouts made a big effect to the public eye and they showed people that this is a problem. Over 20,000 students walked out of their classrooms for 5 days straight. The overall effect of this wasn’t too much and they eventually just went back to school. -
Stonewall "riots"
A large portion of the gay community started in New York with the publicizing of it in the Stonewall Riots. These were large outbursts and protests to fight against unjust police treatment of the gay community. The gay community had representation from another organization however it was falling apart and this outburst had done a good job at putting the gay community on the news and making them known nationwide. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
Native Americans took over Alcatraz and held it until June 11 1971. A total of 89 Native Americans occupied this island in protest and they called it Indian Land. The whole nation was focused on this movement and it drew a lot of attention. This was the first big Indian movement and it caused a domino effect of protests. -
La Raza Unita
The Raza Unida party is another Chicano based organization which soon spread through Texas and Southern California. This organization fought for social, economic, and political fairness. Other organizations were already fighting for this so what Raza Unida did is they supported them to see out what they were fighting for. This party successfully spread the problem throughout the public to get more eyes on the issue. -
Brown Berets
During the Chicano Movement a pro-Chicano organization emerged called the Brown Berets. This organization still exists today and was seen as the third movement for liberation. Their goal was to fight discrimination through police and the public. The marches they did and amount of members made a substantial effect on police brutality. -
Physsis Schlafy
A women activist and lawyer by the name of Phyllis Schlafly was a lawyer and a woman activist that opposed the ERA. She opposed of it because she believed women deserved more rights then just being able to vote. She fought this case and won and she was known as a hero to all women. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed by the National Women’s political party in 1923. Eventually it was passed in 1972 by congress after almost 50 years. This amendment gives men and women equal rights indefinitely. This was a huge step in the fight for feminism. -
Trail of Broken Treaties
The trail of broken treaties was aimed to draw public attention to the problems that Native Americans were facing. They had unfair treaty rights and living conditions. This event consisted of around 1,000 Native Americans taking over the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and they violently vandalized the place in protest. After causing $2 million in damage they had 20 demands and were given $66,000 for transportation by Nixon to solve the issue. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v Wade was a case fought due to the right to be able to abort a child at here own will. Roe argued that being able to abort is the right girls have because it's there body and baby so they should be able to do especially in a private manner. Roe received a ton of criticism. Despite all the hate and criticism they won and were granted with the rights to be able to abort a child in a private manner. -
Siege at Wounded Knee
On the 29th of December, 1890, between 150 and 300 Native Americans were killed by U.S. soldiers in the town of Wounded Knee in South Dakota 200 American Indian Movement members occupied the town and took 11 American hostages while they were at it. They held Wounded Knee for 71 days demanding change in their broken treaties and eventually surrendered. -
Murder of Harvey Milk
Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed. Harvey Milk was elected into office as a gay man and this was a big deal in the community. Senator John Briggs was proposing a ban of lesbian and gay teachers and Harvey Milk stepped up to fight this. He was soon murdered and the reaction to this was a large increase in the fight for LGBTQ. -
Indian Gaming Regulatory act
The Indian Gaming Regulatory act was passed by the United States Congress to establish a formal agreement of Indian Gaming in their land. Before this the Indians were very poor and could not make sufficient money but this gaming act helped to give them a chance to make real money. They invested in casinos and started a revolution of money making activities to revive slight Indian power. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard, a student at the University of Wyoming was beaten, tortured and soon left for dead. He was later found and lasted 6 days in the hospital but unfortunately died of brain injury. After his death his family made a foundation in his honour which fought for a better hate crime regulations. Finally in 2009, Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. -
Repeal of Don't ask Don't Tell
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal act was in short a repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Act which didn’t allow gay, lesbian or bisexual people to serve in the military. This was a huge step the government took to support the LGBTQ community and took over 20,000 veterans to speak out about it and over 625,000 emails to be sent to congress for them to take it. The growth of the community and the passing of these laws has them going up number. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges - This civil rights case ended with full gay marriage rights to everyone. This was the near end of the revolution of the LGBTQ community as of now and it was a very successful movement. The result making gay marriage legal is proof that the U.S. government approves of the LGBTQ community. This could be just a start to the de facto fight for the community.
