Cold War/Civil Rights
Economics and Discontent
Parallels and Paradoxes
Here and There
It's a Race Thing
100
Eisenhower sends troops to the Little Rock High School to enforce desegregation not immediately following the Supreme Court ruling but after coverage in this?
What is the Soviet press?
100
Using this practice, the FHA underwriters warned that the presence of even one or two non-white families could undermine real estate values in new suburbs. These government guidelines were widely adopted by private industry and helped to segregate housing and wealth in America.
What is redlining?
100
Today, we have many of the same segregation practices without the explicit language, and those practices are largely inscribed in this.
What is geography?
100
Following the Civil War thousands of southern whites formed illegal bands to protest open elections, re-segregate public institutions, and oppose public education. During a period of "massive resistance" this happened again in 1954 following this court case?
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
100
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were essentially makeovers of law passed during this era.
What is Reconstruction?
200
International student movement of the 1960s characterized by opposition to Vietnam and participation civil rights; accused the Old Left (socialists and communists alike) with complicity in the established order
What is the New Left?
200
Real estate agents preyed on the racial fears of white homeowners to get them to sell their homes quickly, for less than market value. The homes were resold to non-whites at inflated prices.
What is blockbusting?
200
Even with the same income, white families have on average twice the wealth of Black families. Much of that difference lies in the value of this.
What is their homes?
200
In the South, Jim Crow laws codified social relations in what was know as de jure segregation. In the North, there were far less laws but the practices were a "matter of fact."
What is de facto?
200
In the 1892, this black man who could "pass" for white was thrown out of a railroad car. The Supreme Court heard his case in 1896 and through its doctrine "separate but equal" neutralized the Constitution.
Who is Homer Plessy?
300
During the Cold War, Segregationists in Alabama and Georgia often labeled civil rights organizations such as the NAACP, SCLC, and CORE as this as part of a political strategy to resist change.
What is communist?
300
In 1945, a black family purchased a house in St. Louis, Missouri under a restrictive covenant barring "people of the Negro or Mongolian Race" from owning the property. A white man, who lived ten blocks away sued to restrain them from taking possession of the property they had purchased. Supreme Court ultimately decided states rights could not include discriminatory housing practices.
What is Shelley v. Kramer?
300
On the one hand, the civil rights era officially ended this. At the same time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying economic and social inequalities that had already been in place.
What is de jure legal inequality?
300
In the US this was much more likely to exclude men and focus on solidarity among women, in the UK this was more inclusive of men and focused on economic inequality.
What is feminism?
300
A vicious circle where whites calculate that other whites are going to sell when a neighborhood integrates, therefore they want to sell first to avoid losses. And, regardless of their personal views towards blacks, they make this happen.
What is white flight?
400
Blacks overwhelmingly left the party of Lincoln to vote for this president in the election of 1960 who called King's wife in Atlanta and promised to end segregation policies in federal housing programs.
Who is JFK?
400
Stemming from their ignorance that the most significant historical barriers to racial inequality are caused by factors beyond individual behavior, it is a popular misconception that the best way to achieve racial equality is through this?
What is colorblindness?
400
In 1968, President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act. For the first time, racial language was removed from federal housing policy and blacks began to move into white neighborhoods in large numbers. In response this happened.
What is white flight?
400
Fighting in segregated ranks to fight Nazism abroad with the intention of ending racism at home. Blacks also pursued a similar strategy in the Civil War.
What is "Double V" Campaign?
400
As a direct result of the Civil War, these three amendments to the Constitution were enacted to ensure the rights of all male citizens regardless of race. They were battled by the South for the next 100 years.
What are the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments?
500
These brothers who oversaw American intervention in Guatemala, Iran, and Cuba. Also proposed that the concentration of the American populations in the city made easy targets for a Soviet nuclear attack. They recommended suburbanization as a component of national security policy.
Who are the Dulles brothers?
500
When whites leave a community that is becoming integrated, they represent 80% of the housing market and directly cause a decline in this and an increase in this. White migration directly leads to the concentration of the poorest black and Latino families.
What are housing prices and property taxes?
500
He asked black children, ages three to seven, a series of questions about some plastic baby dolls that were identical except for color. Ten of sixteen of the young black children preferred the white dolls to the black dolls. The same experiment was done again in 2005 with similar results.
Who is Kenneth Clark?
500
The leaders of this organization were unable to give their movement the moral dimension that the SCLC achieved in the US because they could not appeal to common religious sentiments among whites and blacks using a sympathetic national press.
What is the ANC (African National Congress)?
500
When Congress created this in 1935, it provided a safety net for millions of workers, guaranteeing them an income after retirement. However, the act’s provisions excluded agricultural workers and domestic servants, who were predominantly African American, Mexican and Asian.
What is social security?
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