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Equal Pay Act 1963
The Equal Pay Act Was a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standard Act. This aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex. The act was signed by John F. Kennedy as a part of his New Frontier Program. -
United Farm Workers Movement
Their leader was Cesar Chavez. They held their first convention in Fresno California in which United Farm Workers was created. Their goal was to fight for better wages, housing and working conditions for farmworkers in the United States. They embraced nonviolence in order to get members on political and social issues. -
California Grape Boycott
This strike is also known as Delano Grape Strike which occurred in Delano California. It was by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers. This strike lasted for 2 years, and it was to protest years of poor pay and terrible working conditions. Those who joined the boycott didn’t buy any grapes for those 2 years. This was successful, the grape growers granted workers better pay, benefits, and protection. -
National Organization for Women (N.O.W)
The National Organization for Women is an American feminist organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 states and in Washington, D.C. The focus is Women's Rights, feminism, Equal Right Amendment, Civil Rights, LGBT rights, and reproductive rights. Founders, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Pauli Murray, Muriel Fox. -
Brown Berets
Brown Berets was a pro-Chicano organization that emerged during the Chicano Movement this ground was seen as part of the Third Movement for Liberation. It was founded by David John Sanchez and is still active today. The organization was created to fight for discrimination and the police brutality going on for Mexican Americans. This group was just like the Black Panther Party. -
American Indian Movement
The movement is a Native American advocacy group in the United States. It was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Advocates group organized to address issues related to sovereignty, leadership, and treaties. In the early years, they also protested racism and civil rights violence against Native Americans. The founders were Russell Means, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt. -
Chicano "Blowouts"
These event are also known as The East Los Angeles Walkouts. It was a series of 1968 protest by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Their goal was educational reform, this group was always concerned about the quality of education they were getting. All their method were walkouts. -
Stonewall "Riots"
Stonewall Riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. -
Occupation of Alcatraz
The occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long protest when 89 American Indians and their supporter occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and John Trudell who was their spokesperson. The occupation served as a strong symbol and uniting force for indigenous peoples everywhere, the importance of the island held in their ancestors' lives. -
La Raza Unida
Raza Unidas sought social, economic, and political self-determination for Chicanos, other minorities and the disenfranchised through local and later, state politics. The goal of the organization was to develop and strengthen other organizations and promote empowerment, voter registration, leadership development and other forms of advocacy. This organization became famous throughout Texas and Southern California. -
The Trail of Broken Treaties
The Trail of Broken Treaties was a cross-country protest that was staged during autumn in 1972, in the U.S by American Indian and First Nations organization. It was designed to bring national attention to American Indian issues such as treaty rights, living standards, and inadequate housing. This was brought to the national capital the largest gathering ever if American Indians presenting their hopes. -
Phyllis Schlafly and the defeat of the ERA
Schlafly became an outspoken opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1970s as the organizer of STOP ERA campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment, it had already been ratified by 28 of the required 38 states. Schlafly was an American conservative political activist and author noted for her vocal and well-organized opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S Senate and sent to the states for ratification. The Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. the U.S Constitution stated that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex. -
Roe V. Wade
Roe V. Wade is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion effectively legalizing the procedure across the U.S. They decided that a woman's right to choose an abortion was protected by the 14th amendment to the U.S Constitution. -
Siege at Wounded Knee
This incident was when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and followers if the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. About 150-300 Native Americans were killed by the U.S soldiers. They had lost the struggle to defend their territory and way of life against the U.S -
Murder of Harvey Milk
Harvey Milks, killing is also known as The Moscone- Milk assassination was the killing of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. They were killed in San Francisco City Hall by former Supervisor Dan White. Harvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. He was a gay rights activist and community leader. -
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
This act was enacted by the United States Congress, to regulate the conduct of gaming on Indian Lands. It was a federal gaming structure. It provided a legislative basis for the operations of Indian gaming, protecting gaming as a meaning of generating revenue for the tribes, encouraging economic development of these tribes and protecting their enterprises from negative influences. -
Murder of Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie late at night. He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado where he died 6 days later from severe head injuries. He was killed because he was openly gay. It brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in various states. -
Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal
The Don't Ask Don't Tell was the official U.S policy on military service by gays, bisexuals, and lesbians instituted by the Clinton Administration. It was issued on December 21, 1993, and took effect, lasting until September 20, 2010. The repeal was a landmark U.S federal statute enacted to establish a process for ending Don't Ask Don't Tell, it which it would allow anyone in the LGBT to serve openly in the United States Armed Forces. -
Obergefell V. Hodges
This court case was a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the right to marry same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment in the United States Constitution. This required all 50 states to perform and recognize same-sex couples on the same terms and conditions as the marriages of opposite-sex couples with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities.
