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☆☆☆☆☆It led to property damage, but no political gains.
Martin Luther King, Jr. helped lead the Chicago Freedom Movement in order to demand open housing, higher quality education, access to jobs, among many other issues that affected the African-American population of Chicago.
Something about homosexuals having a confrontation with police or demonstrating over gay rights. See "Stonewall Riot."
Women were paid less than men.
Women were blocked from moving to higher-level jobs.
advertisements for jobs that specified applicants to be male - Apex
One example of the kind of discrimination successfully ended by efforts of The National Organization for Women (NOW) was the advertisements for jobs that specified applicants to be male
He viewed it as a disaster
The boycott was in support of poorly-paid farm workers. Lettuce was also boycotted.
Educational programs and activities
poverty
assimilate into white culture - Apex
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Nonviolent message
they feared being discriminated against.-apex
Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the black nationalism rallying slogan, “black power.”
