The Civil Rights Movement Expands in two minutes
- Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) described many homemakers' frustration, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned sex discrimination in jobs, and Friedan helped found the National Organization for Women in 1966.
- Congress passed the Equal Pay Act (1963), Title IX (1972), which barred sex discrimination in federally funded education, and the Equal Rights Amendment (1972), which fell three states short by 1982.
- César Chávez and Dolores Huerta built the union that became the United Farm Workers, and the Delano grape strike and boycott that began in 1965 won contracts from many California growers.
- Indians of All Tribes occupied Alcatraz from 1969 to 1971, the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee in 1973, and the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 let tribes run federal programs.
- Asian American students joined Black, Latino and Native students in strikes at San Francisco State and Berkeley in 1968 and 1969 that won ethnic studies programs.
- In June 1969 patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, fought back against a police raid, which helped launch the gay liberation movement.
- On the exam: Questions ask you to compare these movements with the Black civil rights movement, explain how they borrowed its tactics, and link them to the conservative reaction.
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