People of the Civil Rights Era
"I Have a Dream", the SCLC, and protesting peacefully are the things I am most known for.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This was triggered by outrage when Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the "White's Only" section of the bus. This event led to the desegregation of buses in the South.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This Amendment banned poll taxes in federal elections.
24th Amendment
Winning the hearts and minds of the Southern Vietnamese people was the goal of this "initiative".
Pacification
These were people who were FOR the war in Vietnam while these were people who were AGAINST the war.
Hawks / Doves
This man benefited from a split in the Democratic party that allowed him to edge out a win in the election of 1968.
Richard Nixon
I didn't get up from my seat in the "White's Only" section of the bus and got myself arrested.
Rosa Parks
Protests in this city failed due to African Americans not feeling discriminated against and relatively little media coverage.
Chicago
It was this court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. It ruled that separate but equal was no longer okay in public schools.
Brown v. Board of Education
This was a surprise attack during the Vietnamese New Year but the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong.
Tet Offensive
This was one legal way to get out of the draft during the Vietnam War.
Go to college, get married and have a child, become a Conscientious Objector
This candidate in the election of 1968 was highly racist and wanted to re-segregate the South. He was also the last independent candidate to win all the electoral votes of a state.
George Wallace
I was a radical Civil Rights leaders, part of the Nation of Islam, that believed protesting in violence would be a much more efficient way of achieving change.
Malcolm X
Based on Gandhi's teachings, this involved occupying seats and areas in "White's Only" establishments and peacefully sitting there until they were served.
Sit in movements
DOUBLE: The proposal of this act led to the March on Washington. It would ban discrimination in employment and in public places like restrooms, restaurants, hotels, and gas stations.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The goal of Operation Rolling Thunder was to knock out these targets along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Army bases, supply trucks, North Vietnamese Airfields, Food cars and trains
This amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
26th Amendment
The attack on this ship let to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
USS Maddox
Formed after Montgomery Bus Boycotts and led by MLK Jr. Their goal was to organize mass, non-violent protests across the South.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This movement failed because the police chief paid to have Dr. King removed from prison and sent out of town. He also did not allow his troops to be violent, which didn't allow Civil Rights activists to get the publicity they needed.
Albany Movement
This was the original court case in 1896 that legalized segregation saying "separate but equal" was constitutional.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This village was infamous for having their people attacked, women raped, and their village destroyed by U.S. soldiers during the late 1960s.
My Lai
An illegal way to try to get out of the draft for the Vietnam War was to...
Burn your draft card, dodge the draft, move to Canada
This man misled Congress about the events in the Gulf of Tonkin, allowing him to gain power over the military as the conflict in Vietnam started to escalate.
Lyndon B. Johnson
As co-founder of the SNCC, I organized many non-violent protests, I marched on Washington, and marched from Selma to Montgomery, where me and hundreds of others were beaten badly by police officers.
John Lewis
250,000 supporters flocked to this event to show their support for the civil rights movement and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
March on Washington
This was a type of segregation in the South that had no legal basis but was practiced as "unwritten rules".
De Facto Segregation
This chemical was used to kill foliage on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It was also caused widespread long-term birth defects and diseases in the people of Vietnam and the American soldiers who worked closely with it.
Agent Orange
The release of these documents in the New York Times shows that the government had been lying to the American people about Vietnam for years.
The Pentagon Papers
After which event of the Vietnam War did famous newscaster, Walter Cronkite, say during a newscast that he believed the conflict in Vietnam would end in a stalemate.
Tet Offensive
President Eisenhower had to send the National Guard in to protect African American students at this Arkansas High School after they had integrated.
Little Rock Central High School
These people rode buses through the South, stopping at "White's Only" establishments and peacefully protesting at each one.
Freedom Riders
This goal of this act was to help register African Americans to vote and take away any poll taxes in federal elections.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This was the philosophy of slowing moving troops out of Vietnam and helping the South Vietnamese set up a government that could stand against communism.
Vietnamization
DOUBLE: Sing the school fight song
Hail Hail to Pendleton Heights
This US general called for hundreds of thousands of more troops in Vietnam, thinking it would help the U.S. win the war quickly.
General Westmoreland
Led by many young African Americans in Tennessee and North Carolina. Sponsored many sit in campaigns.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The goal of this movement was to help African Americans in Mississippi register to vote.
Freedom Summer
It was in this city that young protesters were sprayed with fire hoses on national television.
Montgomery, Alabama
This limited the president's ability to use troops in foreign conflict for longer than 60 days.
War Powers Act of 1973
Protesters became violent at this convention trying to pressure politicians to end the Vietnam War.
Democratic National Convention
After losing the primary in this state, Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew from the presidential election of 1972.
New Hampshire