Civil Rights 4: Other Minorities

Requires that men and women be paid the same amount for doing the same job

• Equal Pay Act

• NOW

• Rehabilitation Act

• Civil Rights Act

adopted activist tactics of other civil rights movements to secure equal treatment of women

• Equal Pay Act

• NOW

• Rehabilitation Act

• Civil Rights Act

helped migratory farm workers gain better pay & working conditions

• César Chávez

• National Congress of American Indians

• John Lewis

• Rehabilitation Act

Organization formed in 1962 to represent the interests of Mexican American migrant workers.

• Rehabilitation Act

• American Indian Movement

• United Farm Workers

• National Congress of American Indians

Founded to ensure Native Americans had the same civil rights whites had and to enable Native Americans on reservation to retain their own customs

• Rehabilitation Act

• American Indian Movement

• United Farm Workers

• National Congress of American Indians

organization founded in 1968 to protest government policies and injustices suffered by Native Americans; in 1973, organized the armed occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

• Rehabilitation Act

• National Congress of American Indians

• Education for All Handicapped Children Act

• American Indian Movement

requires public schools to provide appropriate educational services for all children with disabilities between ages 3 and 21

• Equal Pay Act

• Rehabilitation Act

• National Congress of American Indians

• Education for All Handicapped Children Act

prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in Federal programs

• Rehabilitation Act

• Education for All Handicapped Children Act

• NOW

• Equal Pay Act

Requires that men and women be paid the same amount for doing the same job

• Equal Pay Act

• NOW

• Rehabilitation Act

• Civil Rights Act

prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in Federal programs

• Rehabilitation Act

• Education for All Handicapped Children Act

• NOW

• Equal Pay Act