The Civil Rights Movement as a Catalyst for Other Civil Rights Movements

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The Civil Rights Movement as a Catalyst for
Other Civil Rights Movements

• Pride, Self Efficacy and Empowerment

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The Movement as Clarion Call

• Attempts to alleviate oppression at the hands of
  colonizing powers
• Native Americans
• Womens Movement
• Chicano Movement
• Gay and Lesbian Movement
• Senior Movement (AARP)

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Native Americans

• AIM
• Occupation Alcatraz Island (S.F.) 69-71
• Repossession of Indian Land
• Over 5,000 American Indians take part
• Advocacy for Indian Issues
• Grateful Dead and CCR did benefit concerts for
  them
• 1973 Armed Repossession of Wounded Knee
• Drew attention to poverty issues on reservations
  (BIA budget increased 225)
• Increased autonomy.1988 Indian Gaming

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70s Womens Movement

• The Personal is Political
• NOW founded by Gloria Steinem (Ms.)
• Economics/Professional Employment
• Cultural Discrimination and Attitudes
• Ex Cultural Mores, Sexuality,
• Female activists who worked within the Civil
  Rights Movement

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70s Womens Movement

• Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique
• Focused on womens ambition and goals
• Were the women of the 50s-60s frustrated in
  stunted ambitions?
• Stifling suburbia?
• Gender specific job listings
• Avenues of professional opportunity

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70s Womens Movement

• Consciousness Raising Using group dialogue.
  What is perceived as a personal, isolated problem
  is actually a social, systemic problem.
• Womens Health and Safety Issues
• Birth Control Pill and the Moral Issues Raised
• Legislation

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70s Womens Movement

• Seeking an ERA. Passed in Congress 2/3
• Ratification Debate
• Anti-Feminist Movement Phyllis Schlaffley
• Threatened family
• These perceived discriminations were protections.
  Chivalry and capitalism actually protected
  women.
• ERA never ratified

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70s Womens Movement

• Title IX
• Equity in Funding
• Harassment
• Enduring Issues
• .77/1.00
• Glass Ceiling

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Chicano Movement

• Attempt to unify and unionize Spanish speaking
  agricultural day laborers
• Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers and the
  Aztec Eagle
• Promoted a boycott of grapes

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Gay and Lesbian Movement

• Stonewall Brutality
• New York City

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AARP Senior Movement

• Gray Panthers
• Health Related and Retirement Issues
• Watchdog groups on promised retirement
  entitlementsSoc. Security, Medicare, Pensions,
  etc
• The Graying of America