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Civil Rights Topic 4 Flashcards

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Reasons for the protest movement in the 1960s?

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  • Used to having been a part of other protests e.g. civil rights movement
  • Rebellious teenagers, “don’t trust anyone over 30”
  • Rise in TV viewers, saw what was happening around the world
  • Expected the Federal government to intervene
  • Vietnam war
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What does the SDS stand for

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Students for a democratic society

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What were the SDS aims

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to campaign against:
- racial injustice
- war
- violation of human rights

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What was the SDS first focus

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focused on campaigning for better human rights within universities

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What were the SDS methods of protesting

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Sit ins and rallies

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What does FSM stand for

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Berkley free speech movement

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When did the FSM start

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1964

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Why did the FSM start

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Due to the university of California restricting protests and free speech
- the movement was set up to win the rights for students to protest

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Effects of the student protests

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Were quite successful, FSM achieved their first aim
But as they became more confrontational they lost support

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What did the FSM become known as, as they lost support

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Filthy speech movement, they were seen as troublemakers with nothing better to do

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When was the anti-war movement

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1965

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What did the anti-war movement protests include?

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  • Burning of draft cards
  • Mass rallies with slogan, ‘Hey, Hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?’
  • Harassed CIA recruiters
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What was the Kent State university shooting

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Guardsman shooting 4 unarmed protestors due to confrontations with authorities and protestors about the vietnam war

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When was the Kent state University shooting

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1970

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What were the effects of the Kent state university shooting

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  • US press were horrified
  • 100s Unis closed as students went on a nationwide strike
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What were the hippies?

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  • grew their hair long
  • Dropped out of school
  • Experimented with drugs and sex
  • “make love not war”
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What were hippies viewed as

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Wasters, people believed they were corrupting the USA but had little impact on the government

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Why did things change for women in the 1950s and 1960s

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  • Contraception
  • Kitchen appliances
  • Vietnam war
  • Other protest movements
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Who was Eleanor roosevelt?

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first lady to president roosevelt

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What did eleanor roosevelt do for women?

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  • Set up and organised women only press conferences so agencies had to employ women
  • Pressured her husband to employ more women
  • Agreed to support JFK if he made a commission on the status of women
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What did JFK’s commission on the status of women highlight

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-Earning 50% of wage for men while doing the same jobs
- Majority of women were in low paid jobs with little responsibility

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What was a result of JFK’s commission into the status of women

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The equal pay act was signed

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What was Betty Friedans book called

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The feminine mystique

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What was the book “The feminine mystique about”

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expressed the thoughts of many women - that there was more than just being a housewife and
The book called for women to reject the idea that their happiness was tied to their domestic roles

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What organisation did Betty Friedan set up

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NOW - national organisation for women to put pressure on the government to give more women’s’ rights

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What were some of NOW’s aims

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  • Maternity leave rights
  • Child day care centres
  • Right for abortion
  • Banning sexual discrimination in the workplace
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What effects did NOW’s protest have

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  • They got $30 million in back pay for women
  • But progress was too slow for more extreme campaigners
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What was the other womens right group called, not NOW

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WLM, womens liberation movement

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What was different about NOW and WLM

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WLM was much more radical, its members were known as feminists and wanted nothing to do with men.

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How did the WLM protest

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sit-ins, burned their bras, protested against miss america

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Why was the WLM not a good thing

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Their actions brought more harm than good, and distracted people away from the key issues of equal pay

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What good things did the WLM do

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Set up discussion groups for women, talked about education, work, relationship and even started dealing with rape and domestic violence

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What did Roe v Wade state

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The right for a women to have an abortion

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When was Roe v Wade

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1973

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Due to abortion being very controversial what groups were set up

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Anti abortion protest groups

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Why did many women oppose the womens rights movement

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  • They believed the WLM was too radical
  • Believed sexual equality was damaging for family life
  • Many women genuinely believed in traditional roles for women
  • Said all feminists were lesbians and were too ugly to get a man
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Who was the one of the main opponents to the womens rights movement

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Phyllis Schlafly

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What did Phyllis schlafly want to stop

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ERA, Equal rights ammendment

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Why did Phyllis oppose the ERA.

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  • It would have a negative impact on family life
  • Women would have to serve in the military
  • Women might lose the right to financial support from husbands and ex husbands
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What did Phyllis set up

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she set up the STOP ERA group

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Was phyllis successful

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Yes, she toured around the country making talks and prevented ERA till it had reached its time limit, it has still never been passed to this day

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What did the womens right movement actually achieve?

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  • Equal pay act
  • More acceptable for women to have careers
  • Right to abortion
  • All sexual discrimination in education is illegal
  • ## Illegal to refuse credit due to gender
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However, what were the limitations of the womens rights movement

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  • Women seeking for jobs were still discriminated against
  • Female athletes were paid less than males
  • Many women were strongly against the movement and equal rights
  • Equal pay was not a reality

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