Rights Revolution/War on Poverty Flashcards

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WOmens rights organization founded to fight discrimination against women

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National Organization for Women (NOW) 1966

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Site of the 1890 massacer of Sioux by federal troops that was occupied by members of the American Indian Movement in 1973. AIM insisted that the govt honor treaty obligations of the past

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Wounded KNee 1973

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Best selling book Betty Friedan that challenged the women to move beyond the drudgery of being a suburban housewife

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The Feminine Mystique 1963

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Riot at a gay bar in NYC that was periodically raided by police. The riot helped trigger the gay rights movement.

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Stonewall Riot 1969

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Health insurance program for the poor, provide states with money to buy health care for people on welfare

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Medicaid 1965

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Health insurance program for the elderly and disabled providing government payment for health care supplied by private doctors and hospitals

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Medicare 1965

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Organizaiton formed in TX by Mexican American veterns to overcome discrimination and provide support for vetrans and all Hispanics. Led the fight to end the segregation of Hispanic children in schools throughout the west and southwest

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American GI Forum 1948

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Mexican American equivalent of the Civil RIghts movement for Mexican American. The movement included student demonstrated to presss the bilingal, the hiring more Chicano, and the creation of Chicano studies programs

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Chicano Movement

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Law that forbids gender based pay discrimination of people performing substantially equal work for the same employer

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Equal Pay Act 1963

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Amendment to the US Constitution giving women equal rights under the law. ALthough the amendment was passed by Congress, it failed to achieve radification by the required 38 states.

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Equal rights amendment 1972

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Provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that guarntees women legal protection against discrimination

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Title VII 1964

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Law that gave Indian tribes control over federal programs carried out on their reservations and increasing the authority in reservation schools

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Indian Self Determination and Education Assisstance Act 1974

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Island in Sanfransico Bay that was occupied by Inidans activists who demanded that hte island be made available to them as a culutral center

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Alcatraz 1969

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One of the leading Meican American civil rights and soical justice activist of the 1960s

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Cesar Chavez (wanted farming)

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15
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Social program indroduced by President Johnson for a war on poverty, protection of civil rights, and funding for education

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Lyndon Johnson’s Great Soiety 1964

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16
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Prominent member of the AMerican Indian Movement who helped organized the seize of Alcatraz in 1969 and Wounded Knee in 1973

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Russel Means

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Militant Indian movement that was willing to use confrontation to obtain social justice and Indian treaty rights

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American Indian Moement (AIM) 1968

18
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President Johnson’s program to help Americans escape poverty through education, job trianing, and community development

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War on Poverty 1964