by BlastRoom
The farm workers, the American Indian Movement, and the road to the ADA.
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In 1962 two organizers left the Community Service Organization and built a farm workers' union in Delano, California, signing up members house to house and collecting dues. What was the union Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta founded called?
Filipino grape pickers in Delano, California walked off the vineyards on September 8, 1965 over pay. Their union, whose Delano leader was Larry Itliong, had been organizing California farm labor under an AFL-CIO charter since 1959. Which union was it?
In August 1966 the two unions striking in Delano merged and took a single AFL-CIO charter, with Cesar Chavez as director and Larry Itliong as assistant director. What was the merged union called?
She co-founded the farm workers' union in 1962, lobbied in Sacramento for farm worker benefits, and served as the union's chief negotiator on the 1966 Schenley agreement, the first contract farm workers won from a California grower. Who was she?
In July 1968 activists called a community meeting in Minneapolis about police treatment of Native residents, then set up patrols that followed officers through Native neighborhoods and recorded arrests. Which organization began there?
On November 20, 1969 Native American activists landed on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, claiming it as surplus federal land under an 1868 treaty, and held it until June 1971. What name did the occupiers give themselves?
Denied a dormitory room because of his iron lung, he lived in the campus hospital at Berkeley, organized other disabled students as the Rolling Quads, and in 1972 helped start the Center for Independent Living, run by disabled people. Who was he?
In January 1970 Mexican Americans in Crystal City, Texas formed a group to run their own candidates for school board and city council, and it swept local offices in several South Texas towns that April. What was it called?
Farm workers were left out of the 1935 federal labor law protecting the right to organize, so growers could refuse to bargain and hire replacements without penalty. Which tactic did the union use from 1967 to 1970 to force growers to negotiate?
Growers had answered the Delano strike with court injunctions and replacement workers, and by early 1968 some strikers were talking about using violence. What did Cesar Chavez do in February and March 1968 to hold the union to nonviolence?
By early 1966 the Delano growers still refused to recognize the strikers' union and the state government had not acted. Which tactic did the strikers use that spring to put their case in front of the whole state?
Chicano students in East Los Angeles attended overcrowded schools with no Mexican American history courses, few Mexican American teachers, and punishment for speaking Spanish. What did more than 15,000 of them do in March 1968?
In 1972 Native American organizations wanted Washington to honor its treaties and to overhaul the agency that ran federal Indian policy. When the Trail of Broken Treaties caravan reached the capital that November, what did it do?
Section 504 had been law since 1973, but the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare had still not issued the regulations that would put it into effect. What did disability rights activists do beginning on April 5, 1977?
A 1990 statute bars discrimination against people with disabilities in hiring, in state and local government services, and in restaurants, stores and other public accommodations, and requires accessible new construction. Which law is it?
One sentence in a 1973 law says no otherwise qualified person may be excluded from a program or activity because of a disability if that program receives federal money. It does not reach a business that takes no federal funds. Which provision is it?
A 1975 law required public schools to give every child with a disability a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive setting, with a written individual education program worked out with the parents. Which law is it?
A 1968 law required buildings designed, built or altered with federal funds to be usable by people with physical disabilities, but it covered federal construction only and left private business untouched. Which law is it?
Signed on January 2, 1968 as Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, this law sent federal money to school districts to set up programs for students who spoke little English. Which law is it?
Congress passed the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act in January 1975. What did it change about how federal programs on reservations were run?
A 1975 law gave California farm workers the right to organize, to bargain collectively, and to choose a union in a secret-ballot election. Which law is it?
Put these three actions of the Native American rights movement in the order they happened. 1. The Trail of Broken Treaties caravan reaches Washington, DC 2. Activists land on Alcatraz Island and claim it 3. Activists occupy the village of Wounded Knee
Put these three events of the farm worker movement in the order they happened. 1. The two Delano unions merge under one AFL-CIO charter 2. Delano growers sign three-year contracts with the union 3. Filipino grape pickers walk off the Delano vineyards
Put these Chicano movement events in the order they happened. 1. Voters in Crystal City, Texas elect a new Mexican American party's slate 2. East Los Angeles students demand Mexican American history courses 3. The Bilingual Education Act becomes law
Which tactic did BOTH the Native American movement and the disability rights movement use in the 1970s to force federal officials to respond to them?
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