Ch 31: Sec 3More Civil Rights

1968 MLK Jr. is assassinated…Is the Civil Rights Movement over?

Affirmative Action

Civil Rights Act 1964 = federal law making all discrimination illegal

Minorities still did not have equal access to jobs and education

•1965, LBJ = Affirmative Action companies doing business with the government must “actively recruit” African Americans (later would include other minorities and women)

Did affirmative action work? Was it a good thing?

Affirmative Action

How it can be good…

1973 = Atlanta GA 1st Af. Am. MayorMaynard Jackson

•Af Am pop in ATL = 50%, working on government contracts? Only 1%!

•Jackson used Affirmative Action to push companies to hire more Af. Ams. 25% employed

Affirmative Action

How it can be bad…

1969, Nixon = companies “must show” affirmative action…how??

Racial Quotas Reverse Discrimination?

University of California Regent v. Allan Bakke (1978)

•Allan Bakke = white student, applied to medical school = denied. •He finds out that the school had racial quotas, meant that minority students with lower test scores were getting in just because of their race.

Maynard Jackson

Allan Bakke

Protest of the Bakke Case

Immigrant Rights

Immigrant Rights

Migrant Worker = travels farm-to-farm for work.

Key Figures = Cesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta•Organized United Farm Workers•1st time migrant workers were guaranteed pay for a job!..but it did not come easy.

•5 yr Grape Boycott•forced farm employers to work with the unions.

Ch 31: Sec 41960s

Environmentalism & Consumerism

In the 1960s people started to realize that some consumer products were unsafe and/or

wasteful

In the 1960s people started to realize that the environment was

deteriorating

1960s EnvironmentRachel Carson = wrote “Silent Spring” all about how

the pesticide DDT was killing all the birdsResult = DDT Banned

Three Mile Island = Harrisburg PANuclear plant leaked radiation! Town had to evacuate.

Result = push for stricter plant inspection

1960s ConsumerismRalph Nader = wrote “Unsafe at Any Speed” by 1990

all cars had to have airbags

Andy Warhol = famous POP ArtistPop Art = focused on popular cultural items

Andy Warhol’s Pop Art