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    Students for a Democratic Society (sds) was founded in 1959. The Free Speech Movement was led by Mario Savio at the University Of California at Berkeley. The feminist movement believed women should be equal politically, economically, and socially.

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    Students for a Democratic Society (sds) was founded in 1959. The Free Speech Movement was led by Mario Savio at the University Of California at Berkeley. The feminist movement believed women should be equal politically, economically, and socially.

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    Chapter27:ThePoliticsofProtest

    Section1:StudentsandtheCounterculture

    StudentsforaDemocraticsociety
    AprominentorganizationwithintheNewLeftwasstudentsforaDemocratic
    Society(SDS),foundedin1959.
    PortHuronstatement
    WrittenlargelybyTomHaydeneditoroftheUniversityofMichigansstudent
    newspaper.
    SDSchaptersfocusedonprotestingtheVietnamWar,buttheyalsoaddressed
    otherissues,includingpoverty,campusregulations,nuclearpower,andracism.
    TheFreeSpeechMovement
    AnothermovementthatcapturedtheNationsattentioninthe1960swastheFree
    SpeechMovement.
    LedbyMarioSavioandothersattheUniversityOfCaliforniaatBerkeley.
    Themovementbeganwhentheuniversitydecided,inthefallof1964torestrict
    studentsrightstodistributeliteratureandtorecruitvolunteersforpolitical
    causesoncampus.
    Officialsdividedhugeclassesintosectionstaughtbygraduatestudents,while
    manyprofessorsclaimedtheyweretoobusywithresearchtomeetwithstudents.
    Thearrestssetoffanevenlargerprotestmovement
    Soonafter,thesupremecourtupheldstudentsrightstofreedomofspeechand
    assemblyoncampuses
    CivilRightsActassuredrightsinplacesofferingpublicaccommodations
    TheBerkeleyrevoltwasoneofthefirstmajorstudentprotestingthe1960sandit
    becameamodelforothers.
    HippieCulture
    HippiesrejectedTraditionalmiddleclassvalues
    TheywantedtobuildaUtopiaasocietythatwasfreer,closertonature,andfull
    oflove,Empathy,Tolerance,andcooperation.
    Muchofthiswasarejectiontothe1950sstereotypeofthewhitecollarmanin
    thegrayflannelsuitwholedaconstrictedandcolorlesslife.
    DefinedthehippiemovementLonghair,NativeAmericanheadbands,cowboy
    boots,longdresses,shabbyjeans,andtheuseofdrugs.
    Communesgrouplivingarrangementsinwhichmemberssharedeverythingand
    workedtogether.
    OneofthemostfamoushippiedestinationswasSanFranciscosHaightAshbury
    district.

    Section2:TheFeministMovement
    ARenewedWomensMovement

    FeminismThebeliefthatmenandwomanshouldbeequalpolitically,

    economically,andsocially.
    OriginsoftheMovement

    Womenfoundthemselvesshutoutofhigherpayingprofessionssuchas
    law,medicine,andfinance.Bythemid1960s,about47percentof
    AmericanWomenwereintheworkforce,butthreefourthsofthemworked
    inlowerpayingclerical,salesorfactoryjobs,orascleaningwomenand
    hospitalattendants.
    OnestimulusthatinvigoratedthewomensmovementwasthePresidents
    CommissionontheStatusofWomenestablishedbyPresidentKennedy
    andheadedbyEleanorRoosevelt.
    EqualPayActwhichinmostcasesoutlawedpayingmenmorethan
    womenforthesamejob.
    BettyFriedantriedtodescribethereasonsfortheirdiscontentinherbook
    TheFeminineMystique,publishedin1963.Becameabestseller.
    TheTimeIsNow
    TheNationalOrganizationforWomen(NOW)andtheeditorofthemagazine
    wasGloriaSteinemAnauthorwhobecameoneofthemovement'sleading
    figures.
    EqualRightsAmendment

    Section3

    Repatriationwhenfederalofficialsdeportedmanyimmigrantsfrommexicoand
    theiramericanbornchildrenaswellandreturnthembacktomexico.
    In1929anumberofMexicanAmericanorganizationscametogethertocreatethe
    LeagueofUnitedLatinAmericanCitizens.(LULAC)Thepurposeofthis
    organizationwastofightdiscriminationagainstpersonsofLatinAmerican
    ancestry.
    AnotherLatinoorganization,theAmericanGIForumwasfoundedtoprotectthe
    rightsofMexicanAmericanVeterans.
    Intheearly1960s,CesarChavezandDoloresHuertaorganizedtwogroupsthat
    foughtforfarmworkers.
    ChavezandHuertamergedtheirtwoorganizationsintoonetheUnitedFarm
    Workers(UFW).
    MAYOssuccessandthespreadofprotestsacrossthewestandsouthwest
    convincedgutierreztofoundanewpoliticalpartyLaRazaUnida,ortheUnited
    People,in1969.LaRazapromotedLatinocausesandsupportedLatino
    candidatesinTexas,California,Colorado,Arizona,andNewMexico.
    Oneissuemanylatinoleaderspromotedinthelate1960swasbilingualismthe
    practiceofteachingimmigrantstudentsintheirownlanguagewhiletheyalso
    learnenglish.

    Congresssupportedtheirarguments,passingtheBilingualEducationActin
    1968.Thisactdirectedschooldistrictstosetupclassesforimmigrantsintheir
    ownlanguagewhiletheywerelearningenglish.

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