1950s America
In the 1950s, many Americans moved to THESE cookie-cutter neighborhoods:
What are suburbs?
This massive public demonstration was first introduced by A. Phillip Randolph during WWII:
What is the March on Washington?
This SCOTUS case overturned the separate but equal precedent from Plessy v. Ferguson:
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
What is poverty?
The Anti-War movement began with college students who were part of THIS group:
At its height, 1 child was born every 7 seconds in the United States.
What is the Baby Boom?
The group of Black high school kids who integrated Central High in Arkansas:
Who are the Little Rock 9?
In response to the Freedom Rides and Birmingham marches, President Kennedy supported this piece of legislation:
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This Great Society program led to a HUGE increase in the number of young people attending college in the US:
What is the Higher Education Act?
The largest event for the counterculture, a 3-day music and arts festival in upstate New York:
What is the Woodstock Festival?
What is the Interstate Highway Act?
Following Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience, THIS protest lasted for over a year:
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed racial discrimination in THIS area:
What is housing?
The Great Society introduced health insurance for the elderly and the poor. The name of those programs are:
What is medicare and medicaid?
The term for Americans not believing their government during the Vietnam War era:
What is the credibility gap?
What is consumerism?
De jure segregation means segregation by law. THIS term means segregation by custom.
What is de facto segregation?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned:
What is racial segregation in all public spaces?
This Warren Court case ruled that the accused must be read their rights when arrested for a crime:
This violent massacre made many Americans question what was going on in Vietnam:
What is the My Lai Massacre?
The term for purposely making products that will break or become outdated:
What is planned obsolescence?
Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers both advocated for THIS during the Civil Rights Movement:
What is Black Power?
Freedom Summer and the campaign in THIS Alabama city led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
What is Selma?
This Warren court case ruled that the accused must be provided with a public defender:
This man famously claimed conscientious objector status due to his faith in Islam and his role in the Civil Rights Movement:
Who is Muhammad Ali?