minority rights

what were the aims of native american protestors

to regain stolen land-tribal land areas

address poverty

be free from the BIA

what was aim

american indian movement

modeled after black panthers

what were fish ins

protsets about the right to fish

called fish ins due to similarities to sit ins

1972 alcatraz occupation

19th month occupation

united approach-50 different tribes

aim

trai of broken treaties 1973

reminder of goverments failure to uphold treaty obligations

1968 civil rights act

extended 1964 civil rights bill to natives

Hispanic movement aims

education-bilungual

farming conditions

vote registrations

what were the brown berets

led walk outs

modeled after black panthers

young lords

chicago gang that became a civil rights group

black panthers again

mayo stand for

Mexican american youth organisation

cezar chavez

non violent protestor

1972 grape boycott

hunger strikes

successes

voting rights extensions act

gay rights movemt

stonewall events

police raided the stonewall inn in new york

400 people began too fights back againts police

lavender scare

ran parrell to red scare

rooted put homosexuals

examples of hostility

bible belt - southern religous states

kkk

wasps

harvey milk

first openly gay candidate elected to public office 1974

assasinated inn 1979

james baldwin

raised public awerness of sexual oppresion through writing

gains in gay movemnt

milk

california had 4 gay state judges

civil rights act 1964 protection against sexual discriminsation

gay sip ins were succesful

limitations

harvey milk murdered

aids crisis

1968 homosexuality changed to non pscyothic mental disorde

NCAI?

National congress of inidan americans

1944

NAACP model

how many native americans?

830,000

wounded knee occupation date?

1973

what was wounded knee?

200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota

two native deaths

called attention to mistreatment of federal agencies

indian education act date?

1972

indian education act?

funds for tribal schools

indian self determinination act date

1975

indian self determination act?

kept BIA but contracted out services like education and healthcare

Issues of Hispanic campaigners?

workers rights-poor condidtions on farms,poor pay,”take it or leave it approach”

deportation-operation wetback in 1953-58

how many deported in wetback?

3.8million

barrios?

hispanic version of a ghettoe

success of 1975 grape boycott?

lead to farm workers having rights to union representation-under agricultral labour relations act of 1975-1st of a kind

publicity

cuban-american adjustment act date?

1968

cuban american adjustment act?

all cubans who lived in us for a year were permanent residents

equal oppurtunies act date?

1974

equal opportunities act ?

billingual teaching in schools

voting rights act date?

1975

voting rights act?

extentision of black civ rights one

provided language assistance at pollling staytions

for hispanics,natives and asian american

bobby kennedy joined…?

the hunger strikes of 68-72 by Cesar chaves

blow outs?

walking out of school lessons to protest billingual issues

student organisation

modelled on civ rights