New Frontier/Great Society
His assassination in 1963 in Dallas, TX was caught on camera and is still being debated today regarding who did it, why, and even how.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
First President of the SCLC who gained national fame during the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Supreme court case that first overruled the “separate but equal” doctrine (in schools):
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This organization was responsible for representing plaintiffs in Brown and many other civil rights cases.
What is the NAACP?
The National Farm Workers Association was founded by these two Mexican-American Labor/Rights Activists?(Must get both)
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Who are Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez?
Part of Kennedy’s “New Frontier,” this organization, partially created to stop the spread of communism, sent Americans to help people in poorer countries:
What is the Peace Corps?
Malcolm X is best known as a speaker for this organization that he later left and would be responsible for assassinating him.
What is the Nation of Islam?
Supreme Court case that expanded due process (and did not allow unconstitutional evidence at trial)
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
This should be the 28th Amendment but there are technicalities keeping it from becoming law - it makes genders equal under the law.
What is the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?
This standoff lasting 71 days between members of AIM and the Federal Government occured on the Pine Ridge Reservation around the same location as an 1890 massacre of Native women and children by the US Army.
What was (the Occupation of) Wounded Knee?
Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ programs included federal programs for healthcare, education, and civil rights summed up as the "War on" this.
What is 'Poverty"?
Before ending segregation altogether with Brown, this case in California was the first to address school segregation, in this case for Mexican-Americans.
What was Mendez v. Westminster?
Post-Reconstruction case that created the “separate but equal” doctrine allowing legal segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, gender (fun fact - gender was added by a racist Southern Senator because he thought less people would vote for it), color, religion, ethnicity, and national origin.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Stonewall Riots, a catalyst for the LGBTQ Rights movement happened in this city?
What is New York, NY?
This is the name of the ‘Great Society’ healthcare reform, still around today, that subsidizes healthcare for the elderly.
What is Medicare?
He was a advocate for the NAACP, winning the Brown case among others and would be the first African-American on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This Supreme Court case created the job I did before becoming a teacher (and gave criminal defendants the right to have counsel appointed):
What is Gideon v. Wainwright??
This Congressional act was the primary result of the Marches in Selma; allowed to expire in 2013 because Southerners are no longer racist...
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1965 (or the Voting Rights Act)?
Betty's Friedan's book that captured the malaise of the educated women of the 1960's.
What was "The Feminine Mystique?"
Conducted during the Johnson Administration this government agency report detailed the systemic problems in inner city America as part of de facto racism.
What was the Kerner Commission?
His assassination in the driveway of his home in front of his family as well as the multiple trials in which all white juries arrived at mistrials for his obvious assassin caused a shift in perceptions of the real plight of Black people in the South
Who was Medgar Evers?
This Supreme Court case dealt with problems of reapportionment and gave us the standard of "one man, one vote" in creating political boundaries.
What is Reynolds v. Sims? I will also accept Baker v. Carr...I will explain.
Also known as the Fair Housing Act this congressional act prohibited discrimination in housing by restricting the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion, or national origin.”
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
Much of the fear of Black Panthers from the Federal Government (especially from the FBI), besides being black men with guns, was the adoption of the political philosophies of this communist leader (they passed out his "Little Red Book" along with free food).
Who was Mao Zedong?