QUIZ TodayLook over you notes from last

time on Government involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights Day 3Civil Rights Expands for other Minority and Immigrant Groups.

Today’s Objectives Compare and contrast the goals and

objectives of other minority and immigrant groups to those of the Civil Rights Movement led predominantly by African-Americans.

Cite and analyze evidence of the political, economic, and social changes in the United States that expanded democracy for other minority and immigrant groups.

Civil Rights movement inspiresother groups to fight for their rights

Other groups pushing for their rights during the Civil Rights Era

WomenLatin American Farm

Workers

Disabled Americans

Native Americans

Women’s Rights in the 20th Century

1919

19th Amendment-Women’s suffrage

1941-45 (WWII)

1972Title IX

Women enter manufacturing jobs

1966NOW founded

Women’s RightsEqual Pay Act of 1963 No Differentials in

Wages based on Sex

There should be equal pay for equal work.

This will be a big theme for Betty Friedan and the Women’s Liberation Movement.

Women’s Rights during the 1960s and 1970s (the feminist movement)

NOW (National Organization for Women)

Founded in 1966 to advocate for women’s rights

Title IX Women’s groups

energized by Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination based on skin color

Title IX prohibits discrimination based on gender

Most well known impact has been on funding for women’s athletics

American Indian Movement

American policy on Native Americans during

Westward Expansion

Assimilation (government tried to “Americanize” their culture)

Reservations Indian Wars (fighting

between Native tribes and US military)

Killing of the buffalo (Wal-Mart to the Native Americans)

Remember…Navajo code talkers

US military uses Navajo code talkers during WWII to speak their own language and prevent Japanese soldiers from intercepting their messages

The intentional destruction of the Native American culture leads to the demand for more rights for Native Americans, who now experience problems of high poverty.

AIM (American Indian Movement-1968)Through 1970s.

In 1973 AIM occupies wounded knee again in a violent protest.

Americans with disabilities

Disabled Americans face discrimination in society: Harder to get jobs Little accessibility for people

with wheelchairs, the blind, or the deaf

Fewer opportunities in athletics

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Offers similar rights to disabled Americans as Civil Rights of 1964 did to African Americans Cannot discriminate in

hiring, must provide access to public places (like schools, public buildings, dining, recreation, transportation services)

Latino Farm Workers Latino farm workers in the western

states face terrible pay and bad working conditions (long hours, hard labor) What is the name for a group of workers

that gathers together to fight for their collective rights? Union AKA labor

union, organized labor

Cesar Chavez Leader of the fight to

advocate for Latino workers’ rights

Used union tactics (boycotting, protests, strikes)

Co-founder of United Farm Workers 1962

Slogan: “Si se puede” (Yes, it is possible)

Recap of Objectives Compare and contrast the goals and

objectives of other minority and immigrant groups to those of the Civil Rights Movement led predominantly by African-Americans. Women: Native Americans: Americans with Disabilities: Latino Farm Workers:

Recap of Objectives Cite and analyze evidence of the

political, economic, and social changes in the United States that expanded democracy for other minority and immigrant groups. Political: Economic: Social: