Civil Rights: Other Groups

Since its creation in 1969 La Raza Unida has focused on:

• securing higher wages for agricultural workers.

• ending segregation throughout the U.S.

• electing Mexican Americans to public office.

• reforming and improving schools that have large populations of Mexican American students

The "termination" approach to federal Indian policy called for the end of

• Federal protection of assets held by Native American Tribes

• official recognition of tribes as legal entities

• trying to assimilate Native American children

• the movement to organize all Indian Tribes into one national organization

If passed, this law would have guaranteed equality regardless of gender:

• Women's Rights Act of 1964

• 19th Amendment

• Equal Rights Amendment

• Equal Opportunity Commission

In 1962, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta created the organization that would become the:

• United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

• National Organization for Women

• La Raza Unida

• American Indian Movement

The American Indian Movement Was created in 1968 in order to:

• restore water, hunting and fishing rights

• demand rights for people living on reservations and recognition of tribal laws

• end the federal governments sale of Native American lands

• end the federal governments "termination " policy

Why was the passage of the Higher Education Act or “Title IX” in 1972 important for equality for women?

• it proposed adoption of an equal rights movement.

• it outlawed discrimination against women in schools.

• It required equal pay for equal work.

• it gave women the right to vote.

In what city did Mexican American students walk out of schools to protest lack of courses about Mexican culture, lack of Mexican American faculty, and inadequate facilities?

• San Francisco

• Phoenix

• Los Angeles

• New York

The main purpose of N.O.W. was

• to secure the right to vote.

• to end segregation in public schools

• to bring marriage equality to all 50 states

• to get equal pay and job opportunities for women.

Which tactic was NOT used by Cesar Chavez and his followers in order to secure a better contract with California farm owners?

• A strike that lasted more than 2 years

• A national boycott of table grapes

• A 25 day fast against non violence

• a cross country march from Delano, CA to The nations capitol in Washington D.C

What form of protest became associated with The Womans Rights Movement

• Burning Draft Cards

• Burning Money

• Burning their Bras

• Locking themselves to the Capitol Buildings front door.