Dolores Huerta was not instrumental in the co-organizing the United Farm Workers, but Cesar Chavez credited her since he thought it made his movement look more diverse.

The revival of feminism in the 1960s first emerged clearly among a group of women associated with the National Organization for Women (NOW).               

Fanny Lou Hamer was a civil rights local leader from Mississippi who spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in 1964. Under pressure from President Johnson, the networks cut off live coverage of her passionate speech, but later the speech made network news.

In I love Lucy, Lucy is a housewife who is always in a quest for employment, but she always fails. She is childish, incompetent, impractical,

The postwar baby boom and population migration from cities to suburbs created a demand for housing, televisions, home appliances, and cars. Television especially spread the culture of middle-class life and consumerism in the 1960s. TV became the nation’s primary leisure activity.

Suburbs were female paradises in the 1960s, since housework was not really “work”. It was always fun!

The Anita Hill – Clarence Thomas incident contributed to the hesitance of women to get involved in electoral politics and to the end of the discussion about sexual harassment.

The ratification and implementation of Alice Paul's Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is strong evidence that freedom for women expanded in the 1970s.

Title IX only applies to female students and staff members.

Many states in the early 1960s prohibited the sale of contraceptives — even to married couples.

gay rights organization for lesbians founded in 1950s

prohibits sex-based discrimination in education

described in waves, it advocates the full equality of the sexes

hysterical hunt for Communists, lesbians, and gay men

school desegregation

Latina professor at CSUN, wrote the curriculum for four classes on the Chicana

black professor and activist who advocated gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines.

first female justice in the US Supreme Court

first woman astronaut

Silent Spring

The Feminine Mystique

controversial scholarly work that caused shock and outrage challenging conventional beliefs about sexuality.

Her photos encapsulated the nation’s struggle during the Great Depression. Her most famous picture, Migrant Mother, became one of the most enduring images of the Dust Bowl and the westward exodus.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1973 declared that the Constitution protects a woman’s legal right to an abortion. In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

ferried new planes long distances from factories to military bases and departure points across the country. They tested newly overhauled planes. And they towed targets to give ground and air gunners training shooting — with live ammunition. They weren't granted military status until the 1970s. They were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.