President Truman ordered a study on the state of America's civil rights. The findings were published in a report called what?
What is To Secure These Rights?
100
this woman refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
the Great Society was aimed at improving life for this group of people; they lacked medical care, education, opportunities, etc.
What is the "Other America"?
100
American involvement in Vietnam began with this President and ended with this other President
Who are John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon?
100
a group of co-racial protesters who traveled around the South challenging segregation
Who are the Freedom Riders?
200
this Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was unconstitutional
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
200
in this protest, the black people in one city all stopped riding the bus until the segregation of the busses was revoked
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
200
this was part of LBJ's War on Poverty; it created the Job Corps, Peace Corps, and Head Start
What is the Economic Opportunity Act?
200
this is the idea that if one country or area becomes Communist, other countries and areas around it will do the same
What is the domino theory?
200
a group of students who organized anti-segregation protests, specifically in Albany, Georgia
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
300
a group of 100 Congressmen signed this, which denounced Brown v. Board of Education
What is the Southern Manifesto?
300
this man tried to enroll at Ole Miss, and a protest and lots of anger exploded at the school, but he was accepted as a student (and graduated)
Who is James Meredith?
300
this man ran for President against LBJ; his supporters were a mixture of southern segregationists, westerners who disliked big government, religious conservatives, and northern, working-class whites (who eventually supported the Republican Party)
Who is Barry Goldwater?
300
this was the anti-communist President of South Vietnam. He was supported by JFK for a while, but when JFK stopped supporting him, he was assassinated
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
300
this black church was firebombed when it was assumed to be empty, but there were four little girls inside, and they were killed
What is the 16th Street Baptist Church?
400
this man tried to prevent nine black students from enrolling in Little Rock's segregated school system
Who is Orval Faubus?
400
this man was the chief of police in Birmingham, Alabama. He was very pro-segregation and responded violently to civil rights movements
Who is Eugene "Bull" Connor?
400
this governmental department, created during the Great Society, started government subsidized housing
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
400
a Vietnamese village that was massacred by US troops
What is My Lai?
400
the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed by this President, who was more active with Civil Rights than his predecessor had been
Who is Lyndon Baines Johnson?
500
pressure from this group towards Orval Faubus eventually led to the reopening and integrating of Little Rock's schools
Who are white families?
500
this act did away with poll taxes, tests, etc. and secured suffrage rights for all
What is the Voting Rights Act?
500
Legislation passed during the Great Society led to these two things, which help provide healthcare to the poor and elderly
What are Medicaid and Medicare?
500
Lyndon Baines Johnson's strategy for the Vietnam War: kill them until they surrender
What is attrition strategy?
500
this act was passed in 1965, repealing the National Origins Act, and leading to an explosion of immigration