Cht 20 Equal Rights Movement US History

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregation in public places.

Under the _ employers had to pay men and women the same wages for the same job.

The Voting Rights Act of 1975 required immigrants to be able to read English in order to vote.

Set up by President Kennedy to study inequality between women and men in the workplace.

The strategy of _ called for peaceful protest.

Policy of giving special consideration to nonwhites or women to make up for past discrimination

Civil rights activist who supported nonviolent protest.

Would have banned discrimination based on sex.

Male leaders in activist organizations always treated female activists as equals.

Four African American college students staged a _ at a lunch counter.

no federal government aid to 60 American Indian groups meant deeper poverty and loss of land.

Idea that women have a right to economic, political, and social equality with men is called _.

Americans with disabilities had discrimination in area such as college admissions and emplyment

Goal was to increase Hispanic political power.

Whites and blacks challenged segregation in bus stations in the South during _

Founded by Judy Heumann to coordinate reform efforts by and for people with disabilities.

Civil rights leader who believed that violence was sometimes necessary.

Attorney _ started the Children's Defense Fund.

The effort to end discrimination and increase Hispanic cultural pride was called the _.

American Indian group that fought for the rights and properties guaranteed in earlier treaties.

The _, led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, strike against California table-grape growers.

The members of the Black Panther Party believed in using only nonviolent resistance.

The Feminine Mystique supported the idea all woman needed to be happy was a husband and family.

The _ lobbied for political issues that affected women.

Coordinated civil rights demonstrations and trained protesters.

A leader of the union that became the United Farm Workers.