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How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1960–80, the campaigns for…
How accurate is it to say that, in the years 1960–80, the campaigns for minority rights had limited success?
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DISAGREE: Legislation
Johnsons 1968 civil rights act contained an 'indian bill of rights' that facilitated native american access to better healthcare, housing, and education as welll as welfare + poverty benefits
The no of mexican american voters was rising because of the 1965 immigration law and the helpful voting rights act of 1965, increase in mexican american politicians
1970 MALDEF convinced a federal district court in texas to rule that mexican americans were an' identifable ethnic minority with a past pattern of racial discrimination' and therefore eligible for special federal protection + redress
Indian self-determination and eductation assistance act 1975 gave tribes control over federal aid programmes and reservation education, felt it promised more than it delivered mainly due to insufficient funding
American Indian Religious Freedom 1978 recognised rights to practice cultural traditions such as the use of the hallucinatory drug peyote during religious ceremonies
san fransisco paased an ordinance banning employment discrimination on sexual orientation in 1972, followed by new york in 1979
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1977 harvey milk became california's first openly gay elected individual, used his election to the san fransisco board of supervisors to promote gay rights
DISAGREE: Campaigns
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Inspired by sit ins NIYC staged 'fish ins' in washington state to remind white americans of the native american treaty rights as a result of state courts closing rivers which they had rights to depite a previous treaty which protected their fishing rights
Red power activists litigated, monitored police racism, established survival schools and gained publicity for tribal problems through problems through occupations, protest marches and writing
When AIM monitored police racism, the native american population in local jails fell by 60%
1969 14 members of the indians of all trives occupied Alcatraz Island, an unused federal prision in san francisco bay, over 600 other NA joined them. fed forces evicted them 1971
1974, the Puerto Rican legal defense and education fund won a ruling that the NYC board of education should provide bilingual education for those with limited english
LULAC walked out of the Equal employment opportunity commission EEOC conference in new mexico in protest of the lack of mexican american representation- johnson appointed vicente ximenez
1966 Cesar chavez organised non-violent demonstration against the mistreatment of farmworkers and UFW- organised national grape boycott was supported at one time by 17mil american
Chicano movement more militant,later became political party.
1968 emulated black panthers in providing free breakfast and encouraging racial pride, and also campaigned for neighbourhood improvement and puerto rican independence
1951 a group of gay men in los angeles established the first Mattachine society to promote greater tolerence
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INTRODUCTION
JUDGEMENT: I disagree because campaigns had a significant influence on making change to the lives of minorities
CRITERIA: must not promoted more equality in the long term for minorities which did not effectively improved their quality of life