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counterculture

was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world in the 1960s

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Haight Ashbury

neighborhood in San Francisco, CA known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s

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Student for a Democratic Society (SDS)

national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left campaigning for civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms

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Free Speech Movement

student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio

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Stonewall Riots

gay activists urged homosexuals to be open about their identity and to work to end discrimination and violent abuse. By the mid-1970s, homosexuality was no longer classified as a mental illness and the federal Civil Service dropped its ban on employment of homosexuals.

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Weathermen Underground

militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan and its goal was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow the United States government

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Indian Termination Policy 1946-1968

Assimilation policy; withdrew all official recognition of the tribes as legal entities

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1968- Indian Civil Rights Act

guaranteed reservation Indians Bill of Rights protections; recognized the legitimacy of tribal laws within the reservations

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AIM (American Indian Movement)

Indigenous civil rights movement

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Occupation of Alcatraz

19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied the Island. claimed that, under the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the Lakota tribe, all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land was to be returned to the Indians who once occupied it

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United Farmers Workers (UFW)

Labor union that launched a 5 year strike against California grape growers to demand recognition and increased wages and benefits. Used consumer boycotts, marches and nonviolent resistance ending in a well-publicized 25-day hunger strike in 1968.By July 1970, the UFW had succeeded in reaching a collective bargaining agreement and higher wages

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Cesar Chavez

Led the United Farm Workers Strike in 1968-1970 and went on a hunger strike

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Betty Friedan’s the Feminine Mystique

Book that challenged the widely shared belief that “fulfillment as a woman had only one definition for American women after 1949—the housewife-mother

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National Organization for Women (NOW)

activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women

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Environmental Advocacy

Movement in the 1960s that sought to legitimize the study and protection of the earth by encouraging NGOs to lobby for legislation

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Earth Day

April 22, 1970 was the first to annually celebrate the environment

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Clean Air Acts and Clean Water Act

Set up money and standards for study and cleanup efforts at local, state and federal level

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