Unit 7

  • Cesar Chevez

    • Co Founded United Farm Workers Union

  • Harvey Milk

    • First open gay man

  • Ralph Nader

    • Ran for president 4 times

  • Gloria Steinem

    • went undercover as a “playboy bunny” to expose Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Club in Show magazine

    • her work started to become more political, specifically pertaining to feminism 

  • NOW

    • founded on June 30, 1966 by a group of activists who wanted to end sex discrimination, including Betty Friedan and Pauli Murray. 

  • Boom Generation

    • Like the silent generation, Generation X has been defined as an "in-between" generation. 

    •  In terms of social and political power, Generation X is sandwiched between the baby boomers, who came of age during the Vietnam and Reagan eras, and the millennials of the Obama era.

  • Bilingual Education

    • Help students that were challenged

  • Special Olympics

    • Provides year round sports training for children and adults with disabilities

  • Title IX

    • Established on June 23, 1972. 

    • Federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or other education programs. 

  • Roe V Wade

    • 1973 - The opinion was 7-2, so the majority of the court agreed.

    • Abortion was legalized.

  • Equal Rights Amendment

    • Originally proposed in 1923

    • guarantees equality of rights under law regardless of gender

  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

    • It stands for Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It helps assure safe working conditions for workers by enforcing safety standards and inspections.

  • Woodstock

    • the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969

  • Affirmative Action

    • An attempt at: 

      • Reconciliation for past wrongs

      • Closing economic gap between races

  • Stonewall

    • Popular gay bar in NYC