USA HISTORY

PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973

PRESIDENT LYNDON B JOHNSON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Advocated for the better treatment of Native Americans and fought for all American Indians to have the same Constitutional rights as all Americans.
A
Native American Civil Rights Movement
B
The Dawes Act
C
The American Reservation Movement
D
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -AIM-the American Indian Movement-began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the summer of 1968. It began taking form when 200 people from the Indian community turned out for a meeting called by a group of Native American community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt.

Detailed explanation-2: -American Indian Movement (AIM), militant Native American civil rights organization, founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1968 by Ojibwe activists Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, Pat Bellanger, and George Mitchell.

Detailed explanation-3: -After advocating for Indigenous rights in New Mexico, John Collier was appointed commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1933. He conceived of the Indian Reorganization Act as a way to restore health and self-determination to the nation’s Indigenous people.

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