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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| United Farm Workers | A labor union of farmer workers of the US. |
| Migrant workers | "A migrant worker is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work. Migrant workers usually do not have the intention to stay permanently in the country or region in which they work." |
| Cesar Chavez | "César Estrada Chávez was an American labor leader, community organizer, businessman, and Latino American civil rights activist." |
| Dolores Huerta | "Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers." |
| UFW Protest against Pesticides | "n the early 1970s, following Chávez and Huerta led a series of boycotts, and protest marches and even negotiated UFW contracts with many central California grape grows to provide better clothing protection against DDT. |
| Delano Grape Strike | "The Delano grape strike was a labor strike organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a Filipino&AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape growers in Delano, California to fight against the exploitation of farm workers." |
| California Labor Relations Act of 1975 | "The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act is a landmark statute in United States labor law that was enacted by the state of California in 1975, establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state, a first in U.S. history." |
| 340 Miles March | "In 1966, Chavez and a group of strikers set out on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to draw attention to plight of farm workers, and during this strike the union won its first contract. Thousands of supporters joined the marchers." |
| American Indian Movement | "The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American grassroots movement founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, initially centred in urban areas to address systemic issues of poverty and police brutality against Native Americans." |
| Indians of All Tribes | "A group of 78 Indians calling themselves Indians of All Tribes lands on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay and begins to occupy it in a demonstration for the rights of American Indians." |
| Alcatraz Takeover | "The Occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long protest when 89 American Indians and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others, while John Trudell served as spokesman." |
| The Longest Walk | "Several hundred Native Americans and supporters marched from Alcatraz Island in San Francisco to Washington, D.C., to affirm American Indians' land and water rights." |
| The Trail of Broken Treaties | "The Trail of Broken Treaties was a 1972 cross-country caravan of American Indian and First Nations organizations that started on the West Coast of the United States and ended at the Bureau of Indian Affairs building at the US capitol of Washington DC." |
| Native American Boarding Schools | "Native American boarding schools, also known as Indian Residential Schools, were established in the US during the late 19th and mid 20th centuries with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children&youth into Euro-American culture" |
| Assimilation | "the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas." |
| Mount Rushmore Protests 1971 | "The following year, on June 6, 1971, a group of Native Americans, led by the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupied the carved Mount Rushmore to demand the 1868 treaty be honored" |
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