Civil Rights Movement In The Early 1970's

The Civil Rights Movement and the antiwar effort helped to generate other major movements in the early 1970s. Specially in the western Untied States, other people of color-Asian Americans, Chicanos, Native Americans sought equality through their own nationalist endeavors and helped to forge the rising debates about multiculturalism. In addition, the contemporary women's movement caught fire a decade before by such manifesto as Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963). It gained center stage in the politics of the United States, especially in relation to reproductive rights and sexual