Cold War
The dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under this leader, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an industrial and military superpower.
Joseph Stalin
These were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow laws
an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Jackie Robinson
An indirect war between the U.S and the U.S.S.R starting in 1947 that lasted for about 45 years.
Cold War
Granted African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
Created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens, public employees and organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
HUAC
Separation that exists even though laws do not require it.
De-Facto Segregation
Boy band of the 60's that were participants in the anti-war movement; by trend setting, not being afraid to speak their mind, and writing songs including: “Give Peace A Chance,” “Revolution,” “All You Need Is Love,” and many more.
The Beatles
a Black American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement preaching self-defense.
Malcom X
An American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. Their fundamental goal was to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means.
NATO
a revolutionary Black organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
The Black Panther Party
The movie reflects Cold War attitudes, and many people consider it propaganda. The main character is an American boxer who symbolizes American ideals such as masculinity, heroic, and natural. However, his Russian opponent is portrayed as evil, corrupt, and unnatural.
Rocky IV (1985)
in 1955 this brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. His death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement.
Emmett Till
a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional (overruled 1896 Plessy Vs Ferguson Case)
Brown V. Board of Education (1954)
an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Truman Doctrine
The promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.
Red Scare
A three-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. recognized as the "Champion of Freedom" for his unrelenting, persistent fight for equality, peace, and justice in every area of life all over the world.
Muhammad Ali
This was the first artificial Earth satellite in orbit. It was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
Sputnik (1957)
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
Warsaw Pact
A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
was also a central part of the civil rights movement, using his influence and popularity with the White and Black populations to fight for the cause. "A Change Is Gonna Come" was one of his most popular songs and would become the unofficial anthem of the US civil rights movement.
Sam Cooke
This event was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.
March on Washington (1963)
Groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals.
Freedom Riders