Chicano, Red Power, and Asian American Movements
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 14 The farmworker movement joined labor rights to civil rights Filipino workers affiliated with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee began the Delano grape strike in September 1965. The mainly Mexican American National Farm Workers Association, led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, joined them; the organizations later […]
Second-Wave Feminism, Family Change, the ERA, and Roe
CLEP History of the United States II, Chapter 14 Postwar change exposed a gap between expectation and experience More women entered paid work, pursued higher education, married later, and questioned the assumption that fulfillment required full-time domesticity. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique described dissatisfaction among many educated suburban homemakers, but it did not represent every […]
