Civil Rights and Other Social Movements Knowledge Bank

Flashcards for reviewing the Civil Rights, Farm Workers, Women's, Native American, LGBT, and Counterculture Movements.

Civil Rights Movement

Movement for civil rights and equal treatment for POC in America.

Farmers Workers/Chicano Movement

Movement aimed to improve conditions and wages for farm workers on the West Coast.

Women's Movement

Fought for protection from employment discrimination for pregnant women, reform rape laws, criminalization of domestic violence, funding for schools

MLK

President of the SCLC, advocated for peaceful protests.

NAACP

Took care of legalities for the Civil Rights Movement.

Black Panthers

More violent/self-defense group during the Civil Rights Movement.

Cesar Chavez

Leader of the pilgrimage to Sacramento; represented California farm workers.

Delores Huerta

Co-founder of the farm workers association.

Patsy Mink

First Asian American woman elected to Congress who coauthored the Education Amendments Act of 1972.

National Women’s Political Caucus

Encourage women’s participation in political parties, elect women to office, and raise money for campaigns

National Organization for Women

Organization that advocated for passage of an Equal Rights Amendment.

Delano Grape Strike

A 5-year strike by farm workers.

Pilgrimage to Sacramento

280 mile journey to gain attention for farm workers' rights.

Brown V Board of Education

Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools.

Plessy V Ferguson

Supreme Court case that allowed for segregation through 'separate but equal' doctrine.

Desegregation laws

Ended segregation in schools

Montgomery bus laws

NAACP filed suit and the Federal District Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court upheld this ruling.

Roe V. Wade

Supreme Court case that made nontherapeutic abortion a legal medical procedure nationwide.

Education Amendments Act of 1972

Prohibits sex discrimination in education.

Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique

Expressed the discontentment that women were feeling at the time and created unity between women throughout the nation

Bilingual Education Act of 1968

Required schools to teach native language and funded bilingual and cultural programs for students who did not speak English

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Strengthened the 15th Amendment and allowed federal oversight/enforcement of allowing all citizens to vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Prohibits housing discrimination based on race, religion, nationality or sex.

California Agricultural Labor Relations (1975)

Established the right for farmworkers to organize and participate in collective bargaining.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Strengthen the 15th Amendment and allows for federal oversight/enforcement of allowing all citizens to vote

LGBT Movement

Movement that fought against criminalization of and discrimination against their sexual/gender identities.

Counterculture Movement

Social cultural movement that rejected and challenged dominant societal norms, values, and conventions in favor for an alternative lifestyle and ideologies

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Frustrated by discrimination and poverty.

Mattachine Society

First postwar organization for gay civil rights.

Daughters of Bilitis

First national organization for lesbians

National Transsexual Counseling Unit

World’s first organization for transgender people

Grateful Dead

Legendary rock band synonymous with the movement

Occupation of Alcatraz

Activist landed on alcatraz and announced building a cultural center

AIM march on washington

1972 trail of broken treaties

The Longest walk

1978 march from Alcatraz to Washington DC

Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists' Alliance

Began to protest discrimination, homophobia, and violence against gay people

Cultural expression

Through art: music, literature, fashion that led to trends and the widespread knowledge of ideologies

Community Building/Alt Lifestyles

Communes, creating communities that have the same beliefs

California v Cabazon Band of Mission Indians 1987

Overturned existing laws about gaming on US Native American Reservations.

Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968

Granted protections to native americans within tribe government that were established in constitution

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

Protected students rights to free speech and allowed for activism among youth.

Stonewall inn (1969)

Sparked activism by protesting against a police raid in NYC using beer

Woodstock Festival (1969)

Bringing together over 400,000 people for a weekend of music, peace, and social activism