Brown Power Chicanos Cesar Chavez the United Farm

Brown Power: Chicanos, Cesar Chavez, & the United Farm Workers

“Brown Power” Mexican American groups worked to improve the lives of “Chicanos” Embraced Mexican heritage (“La Raza”) & fought for voter registration, poverty reforms, & bilingual education programs

“Brown Power” Mexican American groups worked to improve the lives of “Chicanos” César Chávez organized the United Farm Workers & helped gain better pay, union recognition, & better working conditions for farm laborers

Pink Power: The Women’s Movement

Pink Power Betty Freidan began the modern women’s movement by publishing Feminine Mystique in 1963

Pink Power Feminists drew attention to sexual discrimination & unequal pay for women

Pink Power Feminists drew attention to sexual discrimination & unequal pay for women Betty Freidan co-founded the National Organization of Women (NOW) to advocate for women

The leader of. Pink the anti-ERA Powermovement was Phyllisdrew Schlafly who believed that women Feminists attention to sexual were protected by the Civil Rights Act discrimination & unequal pay for women Feminists demanded an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to ban sexism The ERA was defeated in the 1970 s by conservatives & anti-ERA women

Pink Power But, the women’s movement did have successes Gained abortion rights in Roe v Wade (1973) Congress passed Title VII to protect women from sexual harassment Congress passed Title IX that outlawed sexual discrimination in education programs

Green Power: The Environmental Movement

Green Power Earth Daybiologist is In 1962, Rachel celebrated each Silent Carson published year on April 22 the Spring exposing dangers of pesticides on the environment By 1970, the government passed clean air & water laws, created the Endangered Species Act & formed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Conservative Power: Barry Goldwater and the Conservative Movement

Barry Goldwater • • • Barry Goldwater was a US Senator who first formulated the political ideologies of what would be come known as Conservatism. He was a Republican and would be the first ethnically Jewish politician to run for President. Goldwater's conservative campaign platform ultimately failed to gain the support of the electorate[6] and he lost the 1964 presidential election to incumbent Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson

Barry Goldwater • Prior to his launch of a presidential bid…Goldwater would release a best selling book “The Conscience of a Conservative” • This book would lay out the tenets of Conservatism and pave the way for the Reagan Revolution of the 1980’s

Conservatism • It was the belief that the primary job of the government was to protect its citizens' lives, liberty and property • All other activities thwart freedom and hamper progress • The government should not be involved in social engineering or economic manipulation