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AIM
(American Indian Movement) Civil rights organization formed by american indians in 1968 to address the needs of Native Americans
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Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act
Legislation passed by congress that attempted to repay Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes suring World War II
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Americans with Disabilities Act
1990 Legislation Prohibiting Discrimination against qualifed individuals with disabilites in the workplace.
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Gideon v.Wainwright
1963 supreme Court decision that established the right of those accused in criminal trials to have a lawyer, even if they cannot afford one.
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United Farm Workers
an organization formed in 1971 and led by Ce`sar Cha`vez to represent the interests fo migrant farm labor.
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Mandate
a binding obligation
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Conformity
Process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors are influenced by the rules fo society.
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Hippies
Members of the youth movement that encouraged noncoformity beinning in the mid 1960s.
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Wiidstock
Musical festival billed as "An Aquarian Exposition", held in the rural town of bethel, newyork from August 15 to August 18, 1969.
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Port Huron Statement
1962 declaration by tom Hayden a member fo student for a Democratic Society (SDS) and student at eh university of Michigan, calling for an end to apathy, urging citizens to challege the gorvernment.
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The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan's 1963 book that revealed the unsatisfactory lives led by many women, held back by the roles society forced upon them.
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TitleIX
1972 legislation prohibiting federally funded schools from admissions to athletics.
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Roe v. Wade
1973 landmark supreme court case that ruled a woman's right to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy is protected under the privacy clause of the 14th Amendment.
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