Key Figures/Groups
This president desegregated the military in 1948.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Despite its peaceful goals, the Kennedy administration opposed this event for much of the preceding summer.
What is the March on Washington?
This Supreme Court Case ruled segregation in schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
These two ideologies disagree about the means of achieving civil rights; one emphasizes empowering black communities while the other focuses on media attention and legal reform.
What are Black Power and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience?
This perspective supports the slow integrationist approach to civil rights, often viewing the NAACP more positively than the Black Power Movement
What is the American Traditionalist perspective?
This group was founded in 1909 with the mission of championing equality for people of color in the U.S.
What is the NAACP?
This crisis revolved around attempts to desegregate an Arkansas high school and was resolved by Eisenhower sending in federal troops.
What is the Little Rock Crisis?
This law extended voting protections, including banning literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is the Voting Rights Act (1965)
Historians strongly disagree as to the merit of this President’s impact on civil rights; some view him as making landmark progress in desegregation, while others criticize his choices as being solely politically motivated.
Who is Eisenhower?
This perspective criticizes the NAACP and the SCLC as being too focused on appealing to white Americans rather than focusing on black-self determination.
What is the Black Nationalist perspective?
This group supported workers’ militias during the 1952 Revolution but opposed the MNR’s moderate reforms.
What is the Revolutionary Workers Party?
These riots from 1964-1968 led many white Americans to fear the outbreak of a race war.
What are the ghetto riots?
This Supreme Court case validated the right of universities to use affirmative action in their admissions process.
What is Bakke v. Regent?
There is a heated historical debate as to whether this Bolivian President, as the first ever Indigenous president of Bolivia, had a positive impact on indigenous rights.
Who is Evo Morales?
Clayborne Carson believed that this figure's FBI file reveals his ideological evolution and political significance as a key figure in shaping modern Black political thought.
Who is Malcom X?
This president expanded economic protections for Bolivian workers and instituted educational reforms which aided indigenous populations.
Who is Germán Busch?
This was granted in 1952, ensuring voting rights for all Bolivians
What is universal suffrage?
Announced by Truman in 1948, this called for the immediate desegregation of the military.
Executive Order 9981?
Historians often debate as to whether or not presidents are justified in hesitating to support black civil rights in fear of this consequence.
What is the loss of white voters?
Thia perspective emphasizes indigenous rights and justice for indigenous individuals.
What is indigenous nationalist?
This president nominated Justice Thomas to the supreme court in 1991.
Who is George W. Bush?
This conflict between Bolivia and Paraguay resulted in Paraguay obtaining 75% of the disputed territory.
What is the Chaco War?
This 1953 Bolivian law redistributed land to Indigenous peasants and increased rural equality.
What is Agrarian Reform?
Historians disagree as to whether or not the traditional use of this substance would justify Bolivian presidents legalizing the substance.
What is coca?
This historian considers Bolivia "the most Indian of the American Republics" as a country where Spanish speakers are in the minority
Who is Herbert Klein