This term was used to describe southern white Democrats
Who were Dixiecrats
This group was tasked with organizing the Montgomery bus boycott
What is the Montgomery Improvement Association
This describes high unemployment coupled with high inflation and a sluggish economy
What is Stagflation
This group was tasked with monitoring violations to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
This banned employment discrimination based on 4 protected categories
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This legislation allowed the president to suspend strikes while also outlawing closed shops. It also required union officials to swear they weren't communists.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
This act established racially neutral criteria for immigration and threw out national-origins quota systems
What is the Hart-Celler Act
This document, signed by 101 Senators and Representatives, outlined arguments against school desegregation
What is the Southern Manifesto
This group was tasked with advising the president on matters of national security
What is the National Security Council
This approach to ending poverty gave money to groups to launch their own programs- as long as they had participation from the poor
What is the Community Action Program
This theory argues that there is no oldest or original form of oppression... all oppressions operate at the same time
What is intersectionality
This book written by a marine biologist described the effects of DDT and helped launch the modern environmental movement
What is Silent Spring
This policy dictated that control over the conflict between North and South Vietnam would be given to the Vietnamese
What is Vietnamization
This describes policies of cutting taxes, raising interest rates, and incentivizing private investment
What is Supply-Side Economics
This organization created a statement outlining a vision of social change called "participatory democracy"
What is Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)