The great Society quiz

Public broadcasting act

created PBS and NPR

CPA 1964

banned discrimination on race, color, sex, religion, nat. origin

Thurgood Marshall

First black supreme court justice

Medicare

medical ins, for poorer americans

VRA 1965

banned literacy test, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, reqs, bilingual

CHIP

pre- and post natal care

Elementary and secondary schools act

textbooks

Head Start

early learning programs

Medicaid

medical ins. for older americans

Higher education act

incl. FAFSA- loans

CRA 1968

banned discrimination in housing

Minimum wage increase

establish americorps, created housing and urban development cabinet position

Chicano

originally a racial/ classist slur for people of mexican descent have been relaimed

UFW

united farm workers in 1962 to combat pay and working conditions

Dolores huerta

taught farmworkers how to become cilizens and how to vote worked with cesar chavez to form the national farm workers association

Cesar chavez

organized union farm workers; help migratory farm workers gain better pay and working condtions

Women’s movement

refers to a series of campaign for reforms on tissue such as reproductive right, violence, maternity, leave, qual pay, women’s suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence

LGBTQ+ movement

individuals have been discriminated against and sought and earned legal equality and right to intimacy, military service, and marriage

Marsha P. Johnson

a model for and warhol, a central figure in NYC gay liberation movement, and advocates for transgender and homeless youth. she was key in the LGBTQ+ right because she raised money for illnesses