The Kennedy Promise
This candidate won the first televised presidential debate in 1960 according to television viewers.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This act, signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965, provided increased federal funding to elementary and secondary schools.
What is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?
This grassroots activist, who grew up listening to her grandmother's stories about life as an enslaved person, played a key role in organizing local branches of the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Ella Baker?
This manifesto, written by Tom Hayden and adopted in 1962, expressed the philosophy of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
What is the Port Huron Statement?
This term describes the economic and social adjustments the United States faced after World War II.
What is "postwar prosperity"?
This American astronaut became the first to travel into space on May 5, 1961.
Who is Alan Shepard?
This act, passed in 1964, banned discrimination in public accommodations and employment based on race, color, national origin, religion, or gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
On February 1, 1960, four sophomores from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College initiated this type of protest at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro.
What is a sit-in?
This book, published by Betty Friedan in 1963, contested the post-World War II belief that it was women's destiny to marry and bear children.
What is The Feminine Mystique?
This 1947 doctrine aimed to contain the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries resisting Soviet influence.
What is the "Truman Doctrine"?
This African American student attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, leading to riots.
Who is James Meredith?
This program, created by the Social Security Act of 1965, pays medical expenses for those over sixty-five.
What is Medicare?
Delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, this speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. called for an end to racial injustice and envisioned a harmonious, integrated society.
What is "I Have a Dream"?
This movement emerged at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, advocating for political activities on campus.
What is the Free Speech Movement?
This government program provided World War II veterans with benefits such as low-cost mortgages and tuition for education.
What is the "G.I. Bill"?
This term describes Kennedy's strategy of using different tactics and military capabilities to respond to various crises.
What is flexible response?
Lyndon Johnson's administration passed laws to protect air and water quality, regulate solid waste disposal, and preserve wilderness areas under this initiative.
What is the Great Society?
Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, this organization called for jobs, housing, education, and protection from police brutality.
What is the Black Panther Party?
In April 1965, SDS organized this event in Washington, D.C., which was attended by about twenty thousand people.
What is a march for peace?
This 1950s television show, featuring a suburban housewife and her bandleader husband, became a cultural phenomenon.
What is "I Love Lucy"?
This man was arrested for the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This act, passed in 1965, lifted severe restrictions on immigration from Asia and favored immigrants with family ties and desirable skills.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act?
This 1967 Supreme Court case ruled that race-based marriage prohibitions violated the 14th Amendment, allowing Richard and Mildred Loving to be a public couple.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
This magazine, founded by Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pittman-Hughes, focused on women's rights and empowerment rather than homemaking and fashion.
What is Ms. Magazine?
This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is "Brown v. Board of Education"?