PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ERA OF PROTEST AND CHANGE
Counterculture
The counterculture was a movement that upheld values different from those of mainstream culture. The Beatles were a big music group. Small communities in which the people have common interest and share resources where called Cummunes, many hippies lived in these. The values were so different from traditional ones which many called the generation gap, which there was a lack of understanding and communication between the older and younger generations. There was a neighborhood in San Francisco, California named Haight-Ashbury. It was the center of counterculture. Timothy Leary, a one-time Harvard researcher, he preached that drugs could be free minded. The impact it had on society is that parents and there children had nothing in common and they saw things differently.
Women's Rights Movement
Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique, she also helped establish the National Organization for Women(NOW) this organization galvanized the woman's movement. Gloria Steinem was one of the feminists during this movement through mass media. Phyllis Schlafly became an opponent of feminism. Feminism was the theory of political, social, and economic equality of men and women. ERA was Equal Rights Amendment. Brought both black and white women together strengthen there shared cause. It's impact on society today is that women are stereotype to just being a housewife, our opportunities expanded. Roe v. Wade was a Supreme Court decision that assured women the right to legal abortions. The percentage of women in the workplace have grown
Latino Movement
One of the most influential Latino activist was Cesar Chavez. Chavez fought for the rights for farm laborers also know as migrant farm workers moving from farm to farm. He organized a farmworkers' Union called United Farm Workers(UFW). Chicano movement was the growth of Mexican American social and political effort.Latinos were faced with all kinds of challenges like lack of opportunity, discrimination, and there voices were often unheard. One of the many women that were Latino immigrants was Esmeralda Santiago, she wrote a memoir called "Almost a Women" it tells about her first day in New York after her and her family moved from Puerto Rico.
Native Movement
The American Indian Movement(AIM) was founded by Dennis Banks and George Mitchell who were Chippewa activists which was to help Indians living in urban ghettos.
Asian Movement
The Japanese American Citizens League was to protect Japanese Americans rights was founded in 1929.
Consumer Movement
In the 1960s and 1970s the consumer rights movement reemerged, it was lead by Ralph Nader. He was an lawyer who investigated whether flawed car designs led to increased traffic accidents and deaths. Reformers pushed to protect consumers from the Pure food and Drug Act to the Meat Inspection Act.
Disabled Movement
People treated people with disabilities as defective. People with disabilities were making great strides to expanding there rights. Disabled veterans from the wars were taking part in this activism. Eunice Shriver, Kennedy's sister, began a athletic camp for young people with disabilities and that turned into the special Olympics.The impact on today's society is that people with disabilities have equal access to education.
Environmental Movement
There were many kinds of Toxic waste which was poisonous byproduct of human activity, coal smog was one of them. Earth day was a way to protest all these environment problems, it became an annual thing. Rachel Carson pointed out that human actions were harming not only the environment but people themselves. Environmental Protection Agency was the EPA created by congress. Nixon signed many different environmental laws like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act. This impacted society today because we need our Earth to be clean so we can live on it and we need to be able to get resources from it.
