1950s
work in factories or skilled trades
blue collar
Segregation by law
De jure segregation
Which amendment? Abolished poll tax and literacy tests in elections.
24th
simply sitting at segregated businesses as an act of peaceful protest
sit-ins
Vietnam was divided along the ___ parallel.
17th
Everyone behaved as they were expected to, therefore, the 50s were known as the age of what?
Conformity
DEF: people have the right to be treated the same regardless of their race, gender, or religion
Civil Rights
Which amendment? Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
13th
9 African-American student enroll at Central High in 1957 to protest school segregation
Little Rock 9
Which side did the U.S. support in Vietnam?
South Vietnam
After WWII, Truman announced a package of reforms known as
The Fair Deal
DAILY DOUBLE: Segregation by custom
De facto
Which amendment? Voting rights for African American men.
15th
Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat, called for an immediate boycott of the bus system
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Group that stopped leaks of classified information to the news media, but turned corrupt for Nixon
The White House Plumbers
First planned community in the nation; solution for returning veterans who needed housing
Levittowns
gave the federal government far-reaching powers to prosecute discrimination in employment, voting, and education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Which amendment? Equal protection under the law
14th
CORE begins to organize Freedom Rides throughout the South in attempt to desegregate interstate public bus travel. Goal was to have law enforced.
Freedom Rides
What helped turn many Americans against the war?
The media/ TV coverage
passed in 1949 to fix the issue, aimed to provide funding for housing, made things worse
Housing Act of 1949
expanded on CR '64, prohibited discrimination in housing
Civil Rights Act of 1968
The decision of 1954: U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education
The largest civil rights demonstration in history, where Martin Luther King Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech
March on Washington
Slowly turning the war back over to the South Vietnamese.
Vietnamization