Bell Ringer You have five minutes to outline
Bell Ringer You have five minutes to outline the following essay prompt: Evaluate the influence of politics and economics on the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
Bell Ringer • Read and discuss the court case you have been assigned. • Draw a picture to illustrate the court case and it’s result. This should be a snapshot image.
All Men Are Created Equal? Creating Equality, Raising Awareness, and Infringing on Civil Liberties
The Warren Court • Warren Court: Known for upholding civil rights/rights of the individual • Brown v. Board of Education • • • desegregation Miranda v. Arizona and Gideon v. Wainwright – rights of the accused Baker v. Carr – Gerrymandering Engle v. Vitale – school prayer Loving v. Virginia – interracial marriage Tinker v. Des Moines – student protest
Students Raise Their Voices • Dramatic increase in colleges during the 1950 s and 1960 s • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • Port Huron Statement • Free Speech Movement • 26 th Amendment , t h ig f o t h g u o n “Old e ” ! e t o v o t h g u o n old e
Equality Creates Inequality • Affirmative Action: Policies that take race, color, religion, sex, or national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group in employment, education, and business • UC Regents v. Bakke: Determined the unconstitutionality of “reverse discrimination” under the 14 th Amendment • Prop 209: Stop preferential treatment based on race, gender, ethnicity, or national origin
• Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW); aggressive but nonviolent • Made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support • Delano Grape Strike • La Raza Unida
The Red Man Fights Back! • Less than 1% of the population • Poorest minority group in the U. S. • Unemployment 10 x higher than the national average
American Indian Movement • Indian Civil Rights Act: extended the Bill of Rights to reservation land • The American Indian Movement: Revival of Native American culture, while seeking restitution for broken treaties • Occupied Wounded Knee and Alcatraz
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar! The Women’s Rights Movement
Origins of Women’s Liberation • Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments • National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and the National Women’s Party • 19 th Amendment (1920) • “Release A Man For Combat”/”We Can Do It!” (WWII) • Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan • The President’s Commission on the Status of Women
Fighting for Work Place Rights • Clear discrimination against women in business, pay, and opportunity • 1963 Equal Pay Act • 1964 Civil Rights Act • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission • The Wage Gap
The Time is NOW The National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Changes • Title IX (1972) • Roe v. Wade (1973) • Equal Rights Amendment (1972) • Phyllis Schlafly “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. ”
The Impact of the Women’s Movement • Increased number of women in college and the workforce • Sandra Day O’Connor: The first female Supreme Court Justice; served from 1981 -2006 • Geraldine Ferraro: The first female Vice Presidential candidate
Gay Liberation Movement
History of the LGBT Community • LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender); QIA (Queer, Intersex, Asexual) • Wide variety of reactions towards LGBT individuals throughout history and cultures. • Native Americans • 18 th century Puritanism • 1920 s Bohemians • 1920 s-1930 s Eugenics • 1950 s Beat Generation
Notable LGBTQIA’s in History • Alexander the Great • Leonardo Da Vinci • Michelangelo • Joan of Arc • Catharine the Great • James Buchanan • Walt Whitman • Emily Dickinson • Tchaikovsky • Oscar Wilde • Leonard Bernstein • Amelia Earhart (B) • J. Edgar Hoover (Q) • Liberace • Eleanor Roosevelt (B) • Marlon Brando (B) • Andy Warhol • James Dean (B)
The Gay Liberation Movement • Stonewall Riots (1969): The gay community fights back after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn (a de facto gay bar) • The first Gay Pride parades are held in LA, Chicago, and NY on the one year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots • Gay Liberation Front: urged lesbians and gay men to "come out”
Harvey Milk • First openly gay person to be elected to public office in • • • California (SF, 1977) Became most visible LGBT politician in the world Passed a stringent gay rights ordinance that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation. Assassinated by another city supervisor; body was found by Diane Feinstein (one of CA’s current Senators). “On this anniversary of Stonewall, I ask my gay sisters and brothers to make the commitment to fight. For themselves, for their freedom, for their country. . . We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets. . . We are coming out to fight the lies, the myths, the distortions. We are coming out to tell the truths about gays, for I am tired of the conspiracy of silence, so I'm going to talk about it. And I want you to talk about it. You must come out. Come out to your parents, your relatives. ” --Harvey Milk, 1978
Changing Views • HIV/AIDS first seen in the early 1970 s • Referred to as “gay cancer” until renamed in 1982 • Changing Views: • David Kirby, Ryan White, Magic Johnson • National Day of Silence April 15
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