A | B |
I am Woman Hear Me Roar | became the anthem of the Women's movement |
Feminism | movement in the US where women wanted equality, fair pay, equal job opportunities, etc |
Betty Friedan | wrote the Feminine Mystique |
Feminine Mystique | book that set off the women's movement |
NOW | organization that fought for equal rights, founded by Betty Friedan |
Gloria Steinem | founder of MS magazine |
Roe v. Wade | controversial court case that established woman's right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy |
Equal Rights | this amendment didn't have enough support to become a law |
Cesar Chavez | ; founded migrant farmworker organization to get better treatment for workers; organized a boycott of grapes |
citizen | The C in JACL stands for this |
reparations | It was what JACL wanted |
JACL | organization that wanted Congress to pay small amounts for property losses during WWII interment |
American Indian Movement | following the example of black militant groups, this group encouraged racial pride in Native Americans and fought for legal rights as well. |
counterculture | any group that rejects conventional customs and mainstream culture |
hippies | an example of counterculture |
Andy Warhol | pop artist who painted Marilyn Monroe and Cambell's Soup Cans |
Rachel Carson | famious biologist and author who wrote about the hazard of DDT |
insecticices | Silent Spring warns against the dangers of using these |
Silent Spring | In this book, Carson warns against the use of DDT and other incecticides |
Latinos | people from Spanish speaking families |
environmental | E in EPA |
protection | P in EPA |
Agency | A in EPA |
Nuclear Regulatory commission | government agency formed in 1974 to regulate civilian use of nuclear materials |
boycott | method used by Chavez so migrant workers weren't exploited |
Ralph Nader | attorney who spearheaded the new consumer effort |
Phyllis Schlafly | began stop ERA and was an anti-feminist |
Rachel Carson | environmentalist who wrote Silent Spring |
environmentalist | Person who actively tries to protect the environment |
Woodstock | site of peaceful rock concert |
AIM | organization for Native American Rights |
EPA & Endgangered Species Act | result of Rachel Carson's book |
Silent Spring | Rachel Carson's book |
DDT | insecticide which was used by farmers but harmful to birds |
title IX | provides for equality in educational programs including school athletics |
titlevii | protects women for sexual harassment |
Ms | magazine founded by Gloria Steinem |