Civil Rights-People
"I have a Dream....."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
This book by Betty Friedan energized a new women's rights movement
The Feminine Mystique
Economic policy in the 1920s
Laissez Faire
Reaganomics
Ronald Reagan
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
Outlawed segregation and racial discrimination in public places
Civil Rights Act of 1964
"You have the right to remain silent........
you have a right to an attorney........
do you understand these rights?"
Miranda Warning
any government program that benefits individuals or families
Social Safety Net
New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party
Fannie Lou Hamer
Outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes
The Voting Act of 1965
Overturned in the summer of 2022 by the Supreme Court
Roe v. Wade
Economic downturn from 2007-2009 (crisis in home foreclosures)
Great Recession of 2008
Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson
Leader and spokesperson for the Nation Of Islam
Malcolm X
President Eisenhower sends National guard and the military to enforce desegregation of public schools
Little Rock Nine (Little Rock high school in Arkansas)
This led to increased awareness of LGBT rights
Stonewall Inn Riots
LBJ's domestic policy was negatively impacted by what conflict
Vietnam War
Affordable Care Act
Barack Obama
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Guarantees equal opportunities for women, African Americans and other minorities in employment and educational opportunities
Affirmative Action
this book brought awareness to the environmental issues created by human behaviors
Silent Spring
Two government programs with "trust funds"-mainly protects the elderly
Social Security
Medicare
Watergate scandal-1st presidential resignation
Richard Nixon