Civil Rights History
the militant expansion of civil rights of the sixties in response to the continued perceived inequity facing African American Communities
Black Panther/Black Power
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Spearheaded Steel industry, one of the first true Captains of Industry, known for his philanthropy
Carnegie
Landmark achievements that expanded health care for the elderly within the Great Society
Medicare/Medicaid
Morning Song, Journey Lights, Sierra showing up to class, Somersault for Brewer
Morning Song
The Little Rock Nine Episode forced the hand of this president to enforce integration policy and overrule the governor of Arkansas by employing the national Guard
Eisenhower
NSA
National Security Agency
Brain Trust
This brought electricity to the several southern states through an ambitious dam building campaign. This organization is still in existence today even though it originated during the New Deal
TVA
Building of Berlin Wall, Civil Rights Act, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy Assassination
Berlin Wall
The origins of the civil rights movement can be traced back to this organization co founded by WEB Dubois
NAACP
SNCC
Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
Kissinger
Artemis II by definition could be considered a continued fulfillment of this program created in response to Sputnik some 69 years ago
NASA
New Deal, Square Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier
Square
Not so much a civil rights movement as much as an expansion and celebration of distinctly African American culture highlighting artistic and literary achievements during the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty
Advocated for African Americans to earn the respect of the white man by learning vocations and proving themselves equals. Founded the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T Washington
Technically speaking, this transcontinental system was created as a mechanism to provide escape routes from cities in the event of a nuclear attack
Interstate/Highway system
Dawes Act, Massacre at Wounded Knee, Completion of Transcontinental RR, Frontier Thesis Published
Transc. RR
Martin Luther King came to prominence with this successful boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott
PWA
Public Works Administration
Muckraker who exposed the plight of the poor and the immigrants in inner cities
Riis
Fulfilled through the UN, the League of Nations proposed this revolutionary postwar concept that forever changed the nature of American Foreign policy
Collective Security
Watergate, Strategic Defense Initiative, Landing on the Moon, Kent State Massacre
Moon Landing