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Equal Pay Act
This act is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act. It was aimed at abolishing wage bias based on sex. This act was signed by JFK as part of his New Frontier Program in 1963. It requires employers to pay men and women equally for doing the same amount of work. There were many protests and walk-outs done by woman to start the talk about amending the Fair Labor Standards Act. -
United Farm Workers Movement
The movement was founded by Cesar Chavez. Its main focus was to help improve the working conditions and wages of farmers in America. They used nonviolence to accomplish their goals (protests, marches, ect). This took place in California. -
California Grape Boycott
It was located in Delano, California. It was a strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Worker against grape growers in California. It lasted more than 5 years. They went on strike to get better pay, benefits, and protection. They marched and protested to accomplish these goals. -
National Organization for Woman
The National Organization for Woman's purpose was to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life. It was formed in Washington D.C. and was most commonly found there. N.O.W. was founded by Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Pauli Murray, and Muriel Fox. -
Brown Berets
This organization was located in East Side Los Angeles, California. It was founded by David Sanchez. They desired to fight discrimination and to defend the Mexican American community from police brutality. They wrote brown berets as a symbol of unity and resistance. They used marches and went to schools to talk to young kids about their goals. -
American Indian Movement
The AIM was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The colors associated with this were black, gold, white, maroon. AIM was lead by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Vernon Bellecourt, Russell Means. It was made to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. The members involved protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. -
Chicano "Blowouts"
These were a series of protests by Chicano students. They were protesting unequal and unjust conditions in Los Angeles Unified schools in California. They students wanted a series of demands but some of the most important were bilingual teachers and smaller class sizes. They used a series of walkouts from school and marched in protest to try to accomplish this. -
Stonewall Riots
The Stonewall Riots were a series of random, violent demonstrations by members of a gay community. They were doing this to protest a police raid that took place earlier that morning at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan New York. This occurred for a total of 6 days. They were using violent protest to show their anger at the disturbance by the police at the gay bar. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
The takeover of Alcatraz was led by the Native American group, Indians of All Tribes (IAT). It lasted 14 months and ended when the Indians were forcibly removed by the federal government. The was the first intertribal protest action to focus the nation’s attention on the situation of native peoples in the U.S. -
La Raza Unida
The founders of the party were Jose Gutierrez and Mario Compean. It is a Chicano nationalist organization throughout Texas and southern California. The goal of La Raza Unida is developing and strengthening other local organizations and promoting empowerment, voter registration, leadership development, and other forms of advocacy for Chicanos and other minorities. They used marches and propaganda to get people to get out and vote. -
Trail of Broken Treaties
It was a cross country protest that was staged in the autumn of 1972 all over the U.S. by American Indian and First Nations organizations. -
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly became an outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment. She was knows as the organizer of the “STOP ERA” campaign. Is stood for "stop taking our privileges". She believed that the ERA would take away gender-specific roles for women and take way the exemption from Selective Service. In 1972, when she began her campaign against the ERA. By then, it had already been ratified by 28 of the 38 required states. She supported antifeminism and opposed abortion. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the US Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters. Woman used protests to bring attention to this problem. They wanted ratification to the Constitution so they would have equality. -
Roe v. Wade
This was a Supreme Court battle between Jane Roe and Henry Wade. This order was on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. The court attempted to balance the state's distinct compelling interests in the health of pregnant women and in the potential life of fetuses. The Supreme Court ruled that individual state laws banning abortion are unconstitutional. -
Siege at Wounded Knee
200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It lasted 71 days. The protestors criticized the U.S. government's failure to fulfill treaties with Native American people and demanded the reopening of treaty negotiations. Overall, 2 protesters were killed by federal agents and many were wounded. -
Murder of Harvey Milk
These were the killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. They were shot and killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White with a 38-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 36 Chief's Special. Milk was believed to have been murdered because had lobbied heavily against White’s reappointment on the Board of Supervisors. Although, civil rights activists used Milk's sexual orientation to push for rights for the LGBTQ community. -
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
This is a federal law that establishes the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming on Native American land. There was no federal gaming structure in place before the creation of this act. This set the stage for tribal government-owned gaming facilities later on. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was a gay student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die in 1998. He was found by rescuers but died 6 days later due to severe head injuries. Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were arrested soon after and charged with murder. They were convicted of this crime. Outcry came from this murder due to Matthew's sexual orientation. People who were pushing for rights for LGBTQ used this in their push for rights. -
Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
This made it possible for gay, lesbian and bisexual people to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. It ended the previous Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that was in place since 1993 which states that they could serve only if they kept their sexual orientation a secret. It was put in place by President Barak Obama, Secretary Leon Panetta and Admiral Mike Mullen. This then made it possible for LGB to serve but it didn't say anything against discrimination either. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
It was a civil rights case where the Supreme Court ruled that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause. It requires all 50 states to establish and recognize same-sex marriage with the same conditions and rights as opposite-sex marriages. This was brought to the Supreme Court by 14 same-sex couples.
