Other Civil Rights Movements

Other Civil Rights Movements

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  Bell ringer In fivesentences or more answer the following question: How do you think that the mainstream Civil Rights Movement affected other minority groups?
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  OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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  Chicano Movement • Isalso called brown power movement comprised of Mexican Americans and other Latinos who fought discrimination and demanded equal opportunities • The Chicano movement consisted of mostly college students and young adults • Cesar Chavez was one of the leaders of the Chicano movement, and drew heavily on the Civil Rights Movement.
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  American Indian Movement •The American Indian Movement (AIM), a militant American Indian civil rights, • originally was formed to help American Indians in urban ghettos or on reservation • AIM was involved in many highly publicized protests • Most of AIM’s protests involved protesting violation of Indian Treaties (March on Washington 1972) or to protest the government's Indian policy (Occupation of Wounded Knee 1973).
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  Asian American Movement •In the late 1960’s, large number of Asian Americans, particularly college students, • Goal: to protest a long history of discrimination • The Asian American Movement successfully persuaded officials to develop Asian studies programs on college campuses
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  1960s Women’s RightsMovement • Also called the feminist movement. • Goal was aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. • Help create the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, (1965) • The EEOC: gave women access to jobs that had a long history of employers who discriminated against women were required to provide timetables for increasing the number of women in their workforces