1960s and 1970s

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1960s and 1970s

• Movements, Counterculture, and Discontent

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Latinos Seek Equality

• Civil war and revolution led many Latin Americans
  to emigrate to the United States
• Cesar Chavez led the Farm Workers
  Movementunionized the workers so they would have
  better pay, better hours, and better benefits

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Native Americans Seek Equality

• American Indian Movement worked (sometimes
  violently) to help the N.A. cause
• Recived money for land taken by the U.S. govt
  and laws were passed by Congress allowing tribes
  to have more control over their reservations and
  education

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Feminist Movement

• More women went to work after WWII but faced
  discriminationless pay and seldomly were they
  promoted
• Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique in
  1963 which outlines what women were feeling
• It was an instant best-seller

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• National Organization for Women (NOW) started in
  1966
• Sucessful in lobbying Congress to ban workplace
  discrimination AND discrimination in
  federally-funded schools (Citadel and Harvard)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)- made abortion legal
• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)- an amendment would
  be added to the Constitution declaring that men
  and women are legally EQUAL
• DID NOT GET RATIFIED!!

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Environmentalism

• 1962, Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, a
  book about the dangers of pesticides (skies are
  silent because birds are dying)
• 1970- 1st Earth Day
• 1970- Nixon creates the Environmental Protection
  Agency (EPA)
• 1970- Clean Air Act- pollution standards
• Also passed during the 1970s laws addressing
  pesticides, endangered species, and strip mining
• Nuclear Testing- three-Mile Island, Pennsylvania

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Counterculture- The Hippies

• During the 1960s, white, middle-class youths
  became so disillusioned with America (Vietnam,
  assassinations, etc.) that they decided to start
  a new society based on PEACE and LOVE
• Age of Aquarius

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• Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco
• Rock n roll music
• Outrageous clothing and appearance
• Liberal use of drugs

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• Movement died out
• Manson Family Murders
• Rolling Stones concert at Altamont
• Drug addiction/ Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix
• Realization that they needed American society to
  survive

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Pop Culture of the 1960s

• Andy Warhol
• The Beatles
• Woodstock
• Movie ratings