Other Americans Seek Rights

Chapter 26 – Section 4

Women’s Rights

Movement

Women’s Rights

Movement

Background The Women's Rights

Movement of the 1960s was a second wave of activism.

The women's movement of the 1960s drew inspiration from the civil rights movement

It was made up of members of the middle class

Martin Luther King Jr. giving his"I Have A Dream“, 1963

National Organization for Women (NOW)

Founded in 1966. Founded by a group of

people, including Betty Friedan, and Rev. Pauli Murray. The first African-

American woman Episcopal priest.

Betty Friedan became the organization's first president.

NOW (con’t.) The goal of NOW is to bring about equality for all

women. They campaigned to gain passage of the ERA

amendment at the state level. Issues NOW deals with:

works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, and the justice system.

end all forms of violence against women eradicate racism, and sexism promote equality and justice in society.

Betty Friedan Wrote the book, Feminine

Mystique in 1963. In her book, she depicted the

roles of women in industrial societies.

She focused most of her attention on the housewife role of women.

She referred to the problem of gender roles as "the problem without a name".

The book became a bestseller and was the cause for the second wave of feminism in the 60s.

Feb. 4th, 1921- Feb. 4th, 2006

The problem that has no name–which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities–is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

-- Betty Friedan

Shirley Chisholm

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm of New York was the first black woman elected to the House of Representatives.

November 30, 1924 to January 1, 2005

President Kennedy

established the firstnational Commissionon the Status of Women in 1961.

In 1963 the commission issued a report detailing employment discrimination, unequal pay, legal inequality, and insufficient support services for working women.

First national Commission on the Status of Women

It is the first federal law prohibiting sexual

discrimination. In 1963 the average female worker’s wages in the

United States were equivalent to 58.9 % of the average male worker’s earnings.

It abolished wage differences based on sex. “No employer having employees subject to any

provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs…” -- Equal Pay Act

Equal Pay Act 1963

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Passed in 1964. It banned discrimination on the basis of color,

race, national origin, religion, or sex. Section VII set up the Equal Employment

Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce the act.

It was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson

on September 24th, 1965 It prohibited bias against women in hiring by

federal government contractors. “…Prohibits federal contractors and federally

assisted construction contractors and subcontractors, who do over $10,000 in Government business in one year from discriminating in employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

Presidential Executive Order 11246

At the same time blacks were

working toward civil rights, Mexican Americans fought for rights too

1948 Mexican American veterans of WWII formed the American GI Forum that fought against discrimination

In the same year as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Mexican Americans won a victory in Hernández v. Texas which made it illegal to exclude Mexican Americans from juries

Civil Rights for Mexican Americans

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1966 – Chávez helped to form the

United Farm Workers Union to win higher wages and better working conditions for migrant workers of America

Like MLK Chávez was for nonviolent protest

Boycott of California grapes led to a 1970 agreement of growers to recognize the UFW

1975 – voting rights expanded to accommodate areas with large numbers of foreign speaking people to have bilingual elections

This was extended to public schools too

Chávez and the UFW

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Native Americans formed the American Indian

Movement (AIM) in the 1960’s to regain land, mineral, and water rights from the past

Older Americans over 65 were having trouble paying for health care and insurance so the American Association of Retired People (AARP) was formed

Maggie Kuhn helped form the Gray Panthers to fight against mandatory retirement for people over 65

Americans with disabilities fought to get reserved parking, ramped entrances, wheelchair lifts on busses, and Braille buttons on elevators

The Education for Handicapped Act of 1975 give free education for all children with disabilities

Organizing for Change

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