Among these groups were Native and Chicano Americans, women, and homosexuals. With a few exceptions, these groups protested peacefully by participating in sit-ins, picketing, and other non-violent means of rallying. For example, the Chicano Americans formulated an idea that was known as "Brown Power." This was a struggle f!.
or their land and it focused mostly on improving the lives of migrant farm workers. Struggles like these transpired in the fifties and sixties and escalated when many Americans wanted peace and equality. .
Events like these had been building up for decades and through Woodstock, these youthful hippies assembled in New York to proclaim peace and liberation. Many liberation movements arose in American Society in 1969 and 1970. For example, women were beginning to discuss the issues of the "patriarchal society" in which they lived. A major advancement for women in the late sixties and early seventies was "consciousness raising groups." All over the country women congregated to discuss significant obstacles that impeded there path to an equal society. The issues included abortion and reproductive rights, rape and sexual violence, and job access. In 1973, there was an advancement for women in the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court Case. This made abortion legal up until the second trimester. .
Many minorities inched closer to the realm of unity, but even today our society is not fully diversified. While many at home were desperately searching for liberation and equal rights, the trauma of the Vietnam War was consuming American's hearts and examining their minds. The hippies disapproved of the belligerent battles overseas and the effects it was having on American society and the soldiers, who were soon to experience psychological damage and the Vietnamese people. In 1969, eighty percent of Americans wanted the war to be over. Due to the lashes of outrage by the American people, President Richard Nixon launched "Vietnamization.