Chapter 30 Flashcards
- New Left
political movement consisting of educators who wished to create reforms on things like Gay rights and drug
- Student for a Democratic Society
founded in Michigan 1962; radical organization wanted to rid American society of poverty, racism, and violence; embraced liberal reforms
- Free Speech Movement
student protest that took place at UC Berkeley where students wanted a ban lifted, the police attacked them
- Counterculture
Youth movement of the 1960s characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment, and rejection of Western materialism
- Woodstock
Woodstock 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field
- Hippies
a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair and wearing beads, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values
- Haight-Ashbury
the place of origin of Hippie counter culture
- National Congress of American Indians
was formed to try and organize tribes to be able to deal with government
- American Indian Movement
the Native American attempt to try and achieve equal rights
- Indian Civil Rights Act 1968
guarantees of the Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes
- Wounded Knee Occupation
200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized and occupied the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota
- Cesar Chavez
American Farm worker who arranged hunger strikes to help bring awareness to Mexican suffering
- United Farm Workers
a labor union for farm workers in the United States of America
- Stonewall Riot
police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a popular hang-out for gays in Greenwich Village in 1969.
- Gay Liberation Movement
homosexuals began an effort to win social and legal acceptance and to encourage gays to affirm their sexual identity
- New Feminism
philosophy that emphasises that men and women are equal
- The Feminine Mystique
Book that stated that women who had college degrees and were stuck at home were like in concentration camps
- National Organization for Women
formed to work for economic and legal rights of women. acted from the liberal tenet that women and men are alike in important respects
- Equal Rights Amendment
four amendments that gave freedom of voting rights and equal protection under the law to women and minorities
- Roe v. Wade
legalized abortion in the first trimester of a woman’s pregnancy