The "Other America"
The development of the interstate highway system allowed middle-class families to live far away from cities in these new communities. (Not quite rural)
Suburbs
Four MAIN Causes of World War I
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the "separate but equal" precedent set by this 1896 court case.
Plessy v. Ferguson
The __________ government was required to send agents into the American South to uphold integration orders
Federal Government
He was the teenager who was accused of sexual assault in a Mississippi convenience store and brutally murdered.
Emmett Till
New educational opportunities after WWII allowed millions of men to enter these high-paying, professional desk jobs named for the formal attire they wore
White-Collar Jobs
Students organizing Sit-ins: SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
This law prohibited segregated facilities in any space open to the public and terminated funding to states that did not comply
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Movement was broadened to a national audience when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" Speech at this event.
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
This Civil Rights Leader initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to move a row back when a white passenger entered her bus.
Rosa Parks
The post-war economic boom coincided with this generation of babies, the first of which turn 80 years old this year.
Baby Boom (Boomers)
National organization to promote Civil Rights Causes: NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
This law prohibited poll taxes, literacy tests, or any other factor that infringed on the right to vote
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Eisenhower set the precedent of using soldiers to uphold integration orders when he took control of Arkansas ________________.
National Guard
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Civil Rights philosophy revolved around the nonviolent breaking of unjust laws, known as this.
Civil Disobedience
This law gave WWII veterans low-interest loans and payments towards college tuition. No Bonus Army this time 'round!
G.I. Bill
Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization: SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Council
This event, begun by Rosa Parks, resulted in a Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation on buses illegal
Montogmery Bus Boycott
These were the nonviolent protests in which students would attempt to be served at a lunch counter
Sit-ins
This Civil Rights leader initially supported Black nationalism, self-defense, and achieving Civil Rights through "any means necessary."
Malcolm X
1950s propaganda revolved around a husband with a high-paying job, a wife to attend to the house, and two small children, in the idea of this type of family. (No relation to the atomic bomb)
Nuclear Family
Organized the Freedom Rides: CORE
Congress on Racial Equality
This American President organized support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress after Kennedy's assassination.
Lyndon B. Johnson
This group advocated for Black Power through armed self-defense against police brutality and social services to uplift Black communities.
Black Panther Party
He was the Governor of Alabama who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to resist integration.
George Wallace