Main Ideas
• In the 1960s women and American Indians struggled to achieve social justice.
• In the 1960s Latinos struggled to achieve social justice.
Who Are You?
• Abigail Adams• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Lucreita Mott• Gremke Sisters• Harriet Tubman• Susan Anthony• Jeannette Rankin• Frances Perkins
Question?
• What has been the typical role of women in US history?
• In the 1960s, this role will be challenged.
Women’s Rights
• Betty Friedan: fought for equal rights– Wrote The Feminine
Mystique – Feminism:
empowerment of women
Women’s Rights
• Women’s Liberation Movement– Equal pay– Equal access to jobs
• Equal Rights Amendment: proposed but never ratified– Strong opposition– Would have outlawed all
discrimination based on sex.
– Was this a good thing?
Roe v. Wade
• Abortion rights• Highly controversial,
then and today• 1973• Supreme Court rules
that abortion is constitutional.
• How do conservatives feel?
• How do feminists feel?
• Result: women have ultimate control over their bodies.
Minorities
• Hispanics– Cesar Chavez– Migrant farm advocate– Pushed for better
treatment of immigrants.
– Organized boycotts to achieve goals
• American Indians– American Indian
Movement (AIM)– Organization that
pushed for better treatment of AI
– Used peaceful and violent tactics
– Seized Alcatraz, Wounded Knee 2, DC