Civil Rights and Conservatism in Texas

Cold War & Space Race

100

This global tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union never turned into direct fighting.

Cold War

200

This competition pushed the U.S. and USSR to build more and more powerful weapons.

Arms Race

300

This U.S. agency was created to lead space exploration.

NASA

400

This Soviet satellite shocked the U.S. when it became the first to orbit Earth.

Sputnik

500

This Apollo 7 astronaut helped test spaceflight systems for future moon missions.

Walter Cunningham

U.S Leaders

100

This 34th president was elected in 1952, led the U.S. during part of the Cold War and supported interstate highways.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

200

This president challenged Americans to reach the moon before 1970.

President Kennedy

300

This president helped push through major Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s.

Lyndon B. Johnson

400

This civil rights leader is famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

500

This Texas politician became the first Black woman elected to Congress from the South.

Barbara Jordan

Civil Rights Basics

100

The fight to gain equal rights for all citizens regardless of race.

Civil Rights

200

The enforced separation of racial groups.

segregation

300

The ending of segregation.

desegregation

400

This 1964 law banned discrimination in public places and jobs.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

500

This 1965 law helped protect voting rights, especially in the South.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Court Cases & Goverment

100

A change or addition to the Constitution.

amendment

200

This Supreme Court case ruled school segregation unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

300

This order desegregated the U.S. military.

Executive Order 9981

400

This Texas case challenged discrimination against Mexican American students, ending segregated schools in Texas

Hernandez v. Driscoll CISD

500

This issue dealt with whether Texas or the federal government owned offshore oil rights.

Tideland Controversy

Texas & Hispanic Civil Rights

100

This organization works to advance the rights of Hispanic Americans.

LULAC

200

This civil rights leader helped found the American GI Forum.

Hector P. Garcia

300

This leader helped organize the Freedom Rides and founded the Congress of Racial Equality

James L. Farmer

400

This Texas politician was one of the first Mexican Americans elected to Congress.

Henry B. Gonzalez

500

This El Paso leader became the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city.

Raymond Telles