Key Terms Cesar Chavez Young Lords Party Alcatraz protest cid 127 Mattachine Society I Hispanic American Segregation A Hispanic Americans are defined by Jim Crow in the same way blacks are B Face economic discrimination can t vote or sit on a jury can t get good education etc C Had to overcome culture barriers to unify Hispanic Americans across their backgrounds 1 LULAC activism 2 Hispanic movement wins Hernandez v Texas a Expands the rights of citizenship to all Mexican Americans says segregation is not legal b Hernandez was tried by an all white jury and supreme court said it was unconstitutional D Cesar Chavez 1 Leads one of the most successful Mexican American protests in the country 2 Becomes a young migrant farm worker and sees the struggles of these workers 3 Very interested in getting the farmers to start a union a Want growers to stop spraying fields with pesticides while workers are in fields b Difficult because migrant workers are always on the move and are very poor 4 Organizes some events gets some media attention but not enough 5 Comes up with a consumer boycott a Get customers to stop buying products from companies who don t treat their workers right b Nationwide boycott of California agricultural products to put economic pressure on farms c Very slow but extremely successful 6 Engages in a hunger strike for 40 days to demonstrate the poor treatment of workers a Cameras follow him everywhere huge media success b Breaks fast with Robert Kennedy c Makes farm workers their story something everyone cares about 7 1973 agricultural unions are created E Younger generations more concerned with cultural pride 1 Young Lords mostly compromised of Puerto Rican Americans a Reject integrationist strategies want to build up their own communities b Engaged in collective self defense made community programs to help their community a Interested in larger goals that bring the rest of the world into their struggle 2 Brown Berets II Native American Segregation A NCAI B Native Americans are the poorest group across the country unemployment rate is 10x the national average C Conditions on reservations are very poor no good schools social services running water D Federal gov ts solution is to end Reservations 1 Native American s first response is to save their reservations culture 2 Gov t says if Native Americans leave reservations they ll set them up with housing jobs social services 3 1950s Relocation Program in an attempt to assimilate Native Americans 4 Most Native Americans see this as a destruction of their culture and are very opposed E Young Native Americans whose families moved to cities become educated and lead civil rights movements later on 1 Alcatraz Protest to draw attention that their lands have been taken for so long a Sit in on the island to draw media attention b Conditions on island represent conditions on Reservations c Call themselves The Indians of all Tribes about 100 people to stay there for 18 months d Make a community out of the island for several months very effectively e Gov t hates this and tries to make negotiations Native Americans want this land for a university museum etc f Sit in starts to fall apart people have to go back to school supplies stops coming to island 2 Protest doesn t gain anything except people talking about Native Americans which they hadn t done for 100s of yrs 3 AIM has these sit ins at other high profile areas Thanksgiving Mt Rushmore Redskins games III Homosexual Segregation A Mattachine Society 1 Advocated for greater civil rights for gay Americans 2 Sip in it was illegal to serve more alcohol if more than 5 homosexuals were in the area cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 a More than 5 homosexual men would go into bars and order drinks and get arrested 3 No women were allowed in the society they felt it would be too radical B Huge problems facing gay Americans in the 50s and 60s C Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin create a lesbian movement DOB D Stonewall riots Stonewall Inn Bar in NYC police would often raid this bar and arrest gays and lesbians 1 Riot lasts for 3 nights a more demanding movement came out of this wanted recognition not inclusion
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