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Title: Era of Social Change


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Chapter 23
  • Era of Social Change

2
Latino Population
  • Latino population Mexico, Puerto Rico,
    Dominican Republic, Caribbean Area, Central
    America
  • Cesar Chavez farm workers unionized
  • Table grape growers boycott California
    refusing to recognize union
  • -nonviolent protest 1965
  • 1968 U. S. government Bi-Lingual Education
    Act ESL classes
  • 1970 La Raza Unida political party

3
Native Americans
  • AIM violence/change
  • 1972 - Indian Education Act gave tribes
    greater control over the education of their
    children

4
Women and Equality
  • Modern feminist movement - momentum after Civil
    Rights Act of 1964 legal tools to fight sexual
    discrimination
  • NOW Betty Friedan
  • Gloria Steinem politics founder of MS.
    Magazine
  • 1972 Roe v. Wade abortion in 1st trimester
  • 1972 Equal Rights Amendment not ratified even
    with extended time
  • Phyllis Schlafly led opposition to ERA

5
Culture and Counterculture
  • Mostly white, middle-class college youth
  • Timothy Leary Tune in, turn on, drop out

6
  • Hippie Culture
  • Drugs LSD
  • Music
  • Colorful clothing

7
  • Haight-Ashbury San Francisco - 1967

8
  • Decline
  • Dangers of drugs
  • Need for money
  • Violence

9
  • Pop Art - Andy Warhol

10
Rock Music
  • Beatles

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Woodstock
  • Woodstock, New York - August 15-17, 1969

13
  • Conservatives blamed increasing permissiveness
    of campus rebels on the counter culture
  • Conservative movement helped propel Nixon into
    Presidency
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