Other Groups attaining Civil Rights
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- Other Groups attaining Civil rights
- Hispanic Americans
- Chicano Nationalism
- mid 1960s Reises Tjerina set up legal campaign based on a treaty between Mexico and USA
- To return land in New Mexico to Chicanos
- legal campaign was defeated through legal action and intimidation
- Tijerina launched a raid on court house of New Mexico
- legal campaign was defeated through legal action and intimidation
- To return land in New Mexico to Chicanos
- Rodolfo Gonzalez founded crusade 1966 for justice which campaigned for better treatment
- lead Chicano representatives in poor people's march from south western USA to Washington
- mid 1960s Reises Tjerina set up legal campaign based on a treaty between Mexico and USA
- Cesar Chavez
- High School Blow outs
- March 1968 mass walkout in eastern Los Angeles .
- around 20,000 teens on the street
- March 1968 mass walkout in eastern Los Angeles .
- Chicano Nationalism
- Native Americans
- 1969 a writer wrote a book attacking US policies towards natives. encouraged uprising of red power
- 1973 American Indian movement activists occupied trading post at Wounded Knee to run free of US control
- wounded knee because site of infamous massacre of Native Americans by US forces
- seige lasted 71 days and 2 people died
- activity forced Nixon to appoint Louis Bruce as commissioner of BIA
- Nixon returned 48,000 acres of land to a tribe
- set up Indian child welfare act 1974 to prevent government agencies from taking children
- Self determination act - free to govern themselves (19750
- set up Indian child welfare act 1974 to prevent government agencies from taking children
- Nixon returned 48,000 acres of land to a tribe
- Women's movement
- Hispanic Americans
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