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Championed Voices: Women, Hispanic, and Native American Rights Movements

This overview highlights the significant struggles and achievements of various minority groups, including women, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans, inspired by the African American civil rights movement. Women fought for equality and gained voting rights through the 19th Amendment, while organizations like the National Organization for Women (NOW) emerged to advocate for pay equity and political representation. Hispanic-Americans, led by figures like Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, sought fair wages and working conditions. Similarly, the American Indian Movement (AIM) emerged to address the challenges faced by Native Americans, advocating for equal opportunities and rights during a time of widespread discrimination.

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Championed Voices: Women, Hispanic, and Native American Rights Movements

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  1. Other Minority Movements Women, Mexican-Americans, and Native Americans

  2. Other Minority Movements • Other minorities were inspired by African Americans and their fight for equality • Women had been fighting for their rights since the early 1900s and were successful with achieving voting rights with the 19th amendment • Women still not on an equal playing field with men in terms of employment, education, and political representation

  3. Other Minority Movements • Women take a page from the Civil Rights Movement by creating their own group • N.O.W.: National Organization for Women (1966) • This group pushed for equal pay in the workplace, opportunities for advancement, and equal representation in politics

  4. Other Minority Movements • PIC

  5. Other Minority Movements • Hispanic-Americans joined in the fight for equality as well • Hispanic-Americans were looked down upon and were denied equality in employment and education. • Most Latinos worked as migrants or as underpaid farm workers

  6. Other Minority Movements • Cesar Chavezemerges as a civil rights leader for Hispanic-Americans • He organizes a group to fight for Hispanic-American rights known as the: • U.F.W.: United Farm Workers (1962)

  7. Other Minority Movements • PIC

  8. Other Minority Movements • Most Hispanic-Americans picked grape and lettuce, were underpaid, and worked in far worse conditions than white farmworkers • The U.F.W. helped Hispanic-American farmworkers achieve higher wages and better working conditions

  9. Other Minority Movements • PIC

  10. Other Minority Movements • One final minority group is going to fight for their equality as well • Native Americans at this time remained mostly poor, unemployed, and uneducated

  11. Other Minority Movements • These conditions will lead them to create their own group • A.I.M.: American Indian Movement (1969) • This group helped to achieve equal employment opportunities and other rights now granted to all minorities because of the Civil Rights Movement

  12. Other Minority Movements

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