He founded with the co-founding of Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American who became the best known Latino civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement. His aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for fifty- thousand field workers in
P2 Task 2 SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1995/97: This act outlines laws that are in place to protect employees against sex discrimination in the workplace. It means that men, women of any race and applicants who have had a gender reassignment operation will not be discriminated against by their interviewers or managers. This includes marital status, sex, or gender reassignment. It includes direct and indirect discrimination. Direct could be when a less qualified man could not be given a job over a more qualified woman whereas indirect discrimination is where a job has requirements that only one sex can fulfil.
They are held back by traditional gender roles. Many women thus have to work two jobs, at the workplace and at home as The U.S. is one of a few countries that doesn’t provide paid maternity leave, so women often lose the opportunity to advance. There is also a huge disparity of women in government positions, as the U.S. ranks #69 among countries with the highest percentage of women in government. Women make up 50% of the population in the United States, but only 17% of Congress and have never served as president. A large part of this has to do with stereotypes, as women are seen as weak and unlikely to serve better than their male counterparts on issues such as national defense.
It was said that the marriage didn’t guarantee “the fundamental right to marry a person of the same sex.” Also it was said that the marriage exclusion does not offend the liberty, freedom, equality, or due process provisions of the Massachusetts Constitution. From my knowledge, I know that you can only get married to the same sex in San Francisco, California and in Canada. In the Loving v. Virginia case, the Fourteenth Amendment was on their side by stating that marriage shouldn’t be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under the Constitution, the freedom to marry or not marry a person of another race resides with the individual and
He followed these three women for nearly a decade after the law to reform welfare passed. These women, Angie, Jewell and Opal personify the welfare stereotype as being black, single mothers who, between the three of them, have ten kids out of wedlock and have survived off welfare for most of their adult lives. Along with the stereotypes, are the facts that the fathers of the children are absent and drugs and alcohol play a part in all their lives. American Dream shows that the problems of the lower class are not simply just economic but also moral and behavioral. RELEVANCE - Relate the concepts found in American Dream with those from another book we have read to date in the course.
The development and design of the monument is believed to have been initiated by an ex-slave Charlotte Scott who used her first five dollars that she had earned as a free person to initiate the project. She developed a campaign to raise funds to honor Lincoln for freeing the slaves (Holzer et al 131). These efforts were unique in memorization of Lincoln since the freed slaves were the only to solicit. For example, a large portion of the contributors were black troops of the union army who participated in the Civil War. When the funds were collected, Thomas Ball, who was a Bostonian and had prior experience in European art, designed the monument, which was later developed in German and shipped to DC in 1876.
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton discussed the possibility of a women's rights convention when they were prevented from speaking at an anti-slavery convention in London in 1840. However, after the Civil War, some of the suffragettes were outraged when black men got the vote but not white women. Susan B. Anthony wrote indignantly about: "Patrick and Sambo and Wong Tong making laws for the daughters of Adams and Jefferson, women of wealth and education". As with the suffragette movement in the UK, there was a strong class element to the struggle. The suffragette movement gained strength in America after black men got the vote (though most southern black men were effectively disenfranchised by literacy laws, the poll tax, threats and intimidation etc).
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende demonstrates the importance of the parts women play in Latin America during the 1900’s. The story is about a Latin American community as they struggle with social hierarchies, freedom, and political chaos. Women are generally lower than men in the story, which they struggle with during the whole book. The role of women in the book House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende portrays women’s involvement, struggles, and achievements. The central and significant role of women in this book plays an important aspect throughout the story as women take on the jobs of housekeeping, care taking, cleaning, cooking, gardening, etc.
Girls were not given a formal education, and if they wanted to enter a higher education, such as college they would be rejected. Colleges at this time did not accept female students. The view in society of a women's education included learning to cook, clean, and take of the children. During the mid-1800s, more and more women became involved with reform movements from abolishment and the temperance movement. The American women finally thought they would be able do some good, outside of their homes.
~definition Intro sentence-The Sioux encountered many hardships. In struggle, they turned to a prophet who promised that if the Sioux performed a ritual called the Ghost dance, Native American land and way of life will be restored. Details 1) The first dance was held in Wovoka in 1889. Lasted 5 days. The ceremony introduced new musical instruments and forms of dance to the Indian culture.