Civil rights organizations
Civil Rights
Great Society
Vietnam
Misc.
100
created during the WWII
What is CORE
100
the passage of this act increased the number of African American registered voters
What is the civil rights act of 1965
100
General reason for the great society
What is improve the general welfare?
100
idea that if one country falls to communism, others near them would fall as well
What is the Domino Theory?
100
leader who tried to get migrant farm workers to unionize
who is Cesar Chavez?
200
MLK was a leader in this organization
What is the SCLC
200
Ended de jure segregation
What is Brown v Board of Education
200
this pulled resources away from great society programs
What is the Vietnam war?
200
report that proved the government lied about vietnam
What is The Pentagon papers?
200
allowing interracial marriages, schools not forcing students to pray, and criminal rights were gained under this court
What is the Warren Court?
300
organization of young people who did the sit-ins.
What is SNCC
300
focus of the civil rights until 1965
What are segregation and voting rights?
300
underlying assumption of the New Deal and the Great Society
What is Government regulation?
300
congress gave its war powers to the president with this resolution
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300
Incident that launched the modern gay-rights movement
What is Stonewall?
400
Para-military organization that created food pantries and education programs for poor black families
What is the Black Panther Party
400
The more difficult type of segregation to overcome because it requires changing peoples' attitudes
What is de facto segregation?
400
trend of the type of jobs that have been created since the 1950s
What is service oriented jobs?
400
the credibility gap was partially causes by this new technology
What is TV?
400
person who thought the ERA would erode traditional status of women
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
500
term coined by Stokely Carmichael that refers to the political and economic power of African Americans
What is Black Power?
500
For some people, this event is considered the start of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s
What is the murder of Emmett Till?
500
name for the area of the country (mid-east) where the production of steel and cars have significantly declined
What is the Rust Belt?
500
non-conformist group that "inspired" the counterculture of the 1960s
What are the Beatniks?
500
this was an attempt to level the economic playing field for Blacks
What is affirmative action?
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