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1.2 Minority rights, GAINS AND LIMITATIONS OF GAY RIGHTS, GAY PRIDE…

- - - - Cesar Chavez fought a non-violent campaign for the rights of farm workers, he organised protests and set up unions.
        -He also fasted in protest.
      - Reies Lopez Tijerinia- he led protests for Mexican land rights of New Mexico at first he used peaceful methods but then it escelated to sit ins and camp ins on national forest land
        1967 signed a deal with black power to work together.
        He and a group tried to make a citizens arrest on an attorney
      - Rodolfo Gonzalez focused on race and identity and favoured more radical methods. His crusade for justice was influenced for black pride.
      - La Raza Unida party encouraged Hispanics to vote and had candidates who represented them and represented interests.
      - GAINS OF HISPANIC CIVIL RIGHTS
        
        In 1954 Hispanics were considered equal citizens.
        
        1966 congress passed Cuban Adjustment Act which said they were citizens if they were in America for a year.
        
        1968 Mexican legal and defence group set up to pursue Hispanic rights in congress.
        
        1974 Equal opportunities act.
        1975 language assistance was set up at polling stations.
        
        Chavez campaign made.a significant difference to farm workers.
      - Key events.
        Cesar Chavez went on a 25 day hunger fast and Robert Kennedy joined in
      - Brown Berets were a young militant organisation set up in 1967, they wore a uniform like the black panthers and campaigned against police brutality.
- - - - 1969, The police raided the New Inn bar based on licensing rules, but it was suspected it was raided because it was a gay bar.
        One of the policemen was aggressive to one of the men and 400 people attacked the policemen.
        This caused many Gay liberation groups to start up.
        Gay marches happened more often in 1970 there was a 10,000 march in New York.
      - TAKING TO THE STREETS.
        
        People joined Gay liberation groups and set up in high acceptance levels.
        Highly gay communities began to spring up
        -places like San Francisco, New York and Seattle had high acceptance levels.
        -People also found that people they liked were gay
        In 1977 the polls suggested that over 50% people thought that they should have equal rights.
        -However, certain groups like the KKK were anti-gay and lots of hostility to gays in the area of the Bible Belt.
        
        SUCCESS OF GAY RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
        
        1974 Kathy Kozachenko the first openly Gay in office
        
        Harvey milk was not openly gay but he supported minority groups and opposed Proposition 6, which was at firing gay teachers.
        -Milk and the pro-gay mayor of San-Francisco were both assassinated in 1979.