Era of Social Change

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Chapter 23

• Era of Social Change

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Latino Population

• Latino population Mexico, Puerto Rico,
  Dominican Republic, Caribbean Area, Central
  America
• Cesar Chavez farm workers unionized
• Table grape growers boycott California
  refusing to recognize union
• -nonviolent protest 1965
• 1968 U. S. government Bi-Lingual Education
  Act ESL classes
• 1970 La Raza Unida political party

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Native Americans

• AIM violence/change
• 1972 - Indian Education Act gave tribes
  greater control over the education of their
  children

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Women and Equality

• Modern feminist movement - momentum after Civil
  Rights Act of 1964 legal tools to fight sexual
  discrimination
• NOW Betty Friedan
• Gloria Steinem politics founder of MS.
  Magazine
• 1972 Roe v. Wade abortion in 1st trimester
• 1972 Equal Rights Amendment not ratified even
  with extended time
• Phyllis Schlafly led opposition to ERA

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Culture and Counterculture

• Mostly white, middle-class college youth
• Timothy Leary Tune in, turn on, drop out

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• Hippie Culture
• Drugs LSD
• Music
• Colorful clothing

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• Haight-Ashbury San Francisco - 1967

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• Decline
• Dangers of drugs
• Need for money
• Violence

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• Pop Art - Andy Warhol

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Rock Music

• Beatles

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Woodstock

• Woodstock, New York - August 15-17, 1969

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• Conservatives blamed increasing permissiveness
  of campus rebels on the counter culture
• Conservative movement helped propel Nixon into
  Presidency