APUSH – Chapter 31 – An Era of Social Change – Flashcards

Non-violent leader of the United Farm Workers from 1963-1970. Organized laborers in California and in the Southwest to strike against fruit and vegetable growers. Unionized Mexican-American farm workers.

The United People Party. stated by Jose Angel Gutierrez, political movement, the party ran Latino candidates and won many positions in city government offices, means the united people and was formed to get better jobs, pay, education, and housing for Mexican Americans

an Indian activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In the decades since AIM's founding, the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States.

the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.

1921-2006. American feminist, activist and writer. Best known for starting the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book "The Feminine Mystique".

Supported by the National Organization for Women, this amendment would prevent all gender-based discrimination practices. However, it never passed the ratification process.

1970s; a new right activist that protested the women's rights acts and movements as defying tradition and natural gender division of labor; demonstrated conservative backlash against the 60s; led the campaign to defeat the ERA claiming it would undermine the american family

Young americans in 60s who rejected conventional customs & mainstream culture

In San Francisco, Hippie formed community, famous center of counterculture. Young people flocked there.

3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s