Cht 20 Equal Rights Movement US History

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

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

Hispanic students in Crystal City, Texas, staged a massive walkout to protest discrimination.

Civil rights leader who believed that violence was sometimes necessary.

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

Civil rights activist who supported nonviolent protest.

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

Goal was to increase Hispanic political power.

Political lobbyist _ worked to defeat the ERA.

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

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

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

The Gray Panthers fought _, or discrimination against an age group.

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

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

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

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

The _ is a Hispanic civil rights  group founded in 1929.

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

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

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

Coordinated civil rights demonstrations and trained protesters.

The _ lobbied for political issues that affected women.

The strategy of _ called for peaceful protest.

University of California v. Bakke, the Supreme Court supported setting racial quotas.

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

Would have banned discrimination based on sex.

Attorney _ started the Children's Defense Fund.

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