By Van Gosse
ISBN-10: 113704781X
ISBN-13: 9781137047816
ISBN-10: 1349734284
ISBN-13: 9781349734283
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Over the next few years, seizures of unused federal land multiplied. The American Indian Movement (AIM) came to prominence as a group prepared to physically confront abusive white authorities and assert Indian pride. ussell Means, organized a series of armed showdowns across the Great Plains, gaining enormous media attention. , where they briefly occupied the BIA building. As with the Black Panthers, however, the possibility of violence overshadowed the community organizing and legal strategies pursued by the larger Native American movement.
But during that decade, corporations started moving factories to non-union states and overseas, and a long process of deindustrialization began. In addition, white-run municipal governments embarked on urban renewal programs, called "Negro removal" by African Americans whose homes and neighbor- INTHOl H JCriON 19 hoods were demolished. White resistance to "open housing" was well organized, and a black family moving into a white block in Philadelphia, Detroit, or any of the new suburbs typically faced stone-throwing mobs and firebombs.
L\ llTION took on new issues, such as combating domestic violence, supporting women's businesses, and generating a feminist theology. Ultimately, all these apparent weaknesses proved to be strengths. Like Black Power, feminism succeeded because it was as much a cultural revolution, a new way of understanding the world, as an organized movement. Anywhere, on any day, an American woman could decide that she was a feminist and act on that conviction: by applying for a "man's job," by speaking up instead of remaining silent, by changing how she behaved around men.
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