The Equal Rights Struggle Expands

Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Law that banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration.

A domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.

To bring together and make whole.

Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers.

Founded in 1944 to ensure Native Americans had the same civil rights whites had and to enable Native Americans on reservation to retain their own customs.

Stressed the "right to choose our own way of life" and the "responsibility of preserving our precious heritage."

Someone who takes direct action to achieve a political goal.

A worker who moves from place to place to do seasonal work.

A party organized in the late 1960s as a means of getting Mexican Americans to unite politically and to identify ethnically as one people.

A term used by the federal government to describe someone who can claim a heritage from a Spanish-speaking country.

The act of ending something.

(National Organization of Women) A group that wanted Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to (EEOC) enforce its legal mandate to end sex discrimination.

(American Indian Movement) Group that demanded greater rights for Native Americans.