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Farmworkers
Cesar Chavez is the founder of UFW, was to make the basic outline of his campaigns in terms of consumer safety. By involving social justice, this brings benefits to the farmworker unions and helps. The United Farm Workers allows farmworkers is mainly used to help the farmers working conditions and wages. -
Fair Labor
President Kennedy signed "the Fair Labor Standards Act" in 1963, the law makes it so that women and men must be paid equally for the same amount of work being done. -
California Grapes
The Delano grape strike was a labor strike in 1965 by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. The United Farm Workers against grape growers in California also were a big part of this. The strike lasted more than five years. This was a protest against bad pay wages on the farms. -
N.O.W
Founded in Washington, 1966, NOW's purpose is to promote and show feminist ideas, make social change, get rid of discrimination, and give all women equal opportunity in all ways of life, politics, home life, workplace, school, so on and so forth. -
American Indian Movement (AIM)
On July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the American Indian Movement was an American Indian advocacy group made to fix issues that were related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. They also protested racism and civil rights violations against Native Americans. -
Blow Outs
Key goals of the Chicano Movement was to help Farm laborers. Cesar Chavez rose to national prominence in the Chicano Movement. He did this by advocating for farmers rights and the right for farmers to unionize. Chavez's activism led to a grape boycott in 1965. This all eventually worked out for them in 1970. -
Stonewall riots
The Stonewall riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT community against a police raid. It took place on June 28, 1969, in New York City. The LGBT community was fighting against an anti-gay legal system. Around the 1950's they started to make gay bars for a place where they felt safe to be. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
During November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971, the Native Americans took over and held Alcatraz Island as Indian Land. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island was led by the Native American group, Indians of All Tribes (IAT). They stayed there for 14 months and ended when the Indians was forced to leave by the federal government. -
La Raza Unida
The Raza Unida Party is a Mexican-American nationalist organization. It became important and stood out throughout Texas and Southern California in the early 1970s. The main goals of the group were to get more Mexican Americans into the government to show their views and needs. -
Trail of Broken Treaties
The Trail of Broken Treaties was a cross country protest, that was taken in the fall of 1972 in the United States by American Indian and First Nations organizations. It was to bring attention to the Native American issues like their living standards. -
Phylis Schlafly
Phylis Schlafly was a big part in the defeat of the ERA, The Equal Rights Amendment. It was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution, made to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens. Phylis practically was the leader of this movement. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment was a proposed amendment that was designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all Americans no matter what sex. It makes men and women equal in terms of a divorce, property, employment, and other matters. -
Brown Berets
The Brown Berets would march for, anti-war protests, student-walkouts, and gained significant national media attention when they pretended an invasion of the Catalina Islands near Los Angeles. Now on many Brown Berets chapters have been formed and reactivated. Their main goal was to fight the police brutality unequal public schools, health care and anything that falls under those categories. -
Wounded Knee Incident
The Wounded Knee incident started on February 27, 1973, when 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Oglala Lakota controlled the town for 71 days while the US FBI couldn't get in the area. -
Roe Vs Wade
United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions. America decided that abortions would not be aloud, especially in Texas. Many women stood up and said that this is their choice since it's their body. -
Murder of Harvey Milk and Impact
Harvey Milk was shot and killed in San Francisco by a man named Dan White on November 27, 1978. He didn't like that Moscone had refused to reappoint him to his seat on the Board of Supervisors that Milk had lobbied heavily against his reappointment. These events helped bring national notice to then-Board President Dianne Feinstein, who was the first female mayor of San Francisco and eventually U.S. Senator for California. -
Indian Gaming Regulatory
In 1988 the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act United States federal law made the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming. They wanted to protect Indian gaming. The law established the National Indian Gaming Commission and gave it a regulatory mandate. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard and Impact
Matthew Shepard was 21 when he was murdered in 1998. He was openly gay and was sitting at a gay bar when two men who were his age approached him. They had him believe they were also gay and lured him away from the bar. Then they told him that they lied about being gay and said that he was getting robbed. The two men beat Matthew, robbed him then shot him with a pistol. He died in the hospital afterward. -
Repeal of Don't ask Don't Tell
Don't Ask Don't Tell was a ban on gay and lesbian service members in history. For 17 years, the law didn't allow gay and lesbian Americans to serve in the military and sent a message that discrimination was acceptable. This was mainly effective in 2011 when that was changed. -
Obergefell v. Hodges
Obergefell v. Hodges was a landmark civil rights case where the Supreme Court and the US allowed same-sex marriage. On June 26, 2015, it was legalized due to the fourteenth amendment and the Equal Protection Clause.
