Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson is from this state.
What is Texas?
Great Society program that provided health insurance to the elderly
What is Medicare?
Black activists in the South turned their focus to voting rights following the 1964 passage of this law.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This cultural movement embraced traditional African names, dress and hair styles.
What is the Black Power movement?
She was a leader of the United Farm Workers movement and advocated for greater political and economic equality for Latin Americans.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
LBJ became president after the 11/22/1963 assassination of this US president.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
After the passage of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, immigrants to the United States were more likely to come from Latin America and this continent.
What is Asia?
Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and this type of tax limited the rights of black voters in the south between 1865 and 1964.
What is a poll tax?
This black activist was born with the surname "Little" but he changed it as an adult to represent his lost African heritage.
Who is Malcolm X?
This group occupied American landmarks like Alcatraz and Wounded Knee to demand greater autonomy and economic opportunity for indigenous groups.
What is the American Indian Movement?
Prior to becoming president, LBJ served as majority leader in this body of Congress.
What is the Senate?
To avoid restrictions on federal funds given to parochial schools, Johnson's Great Society measured school funding based on this.
What are students?
This mass voter registration drive attempted to increase voter registration in Mississippi and Alabama in 1964.
What is Freedom Summer?
This group, founded in 1966, advocated for a person's right to own guns, protested police brutality and pioneered a program of free breakfast for Oakland, CA schools.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This uprising in 1969 protested discrimination against the LGBT community in NYC.
What are the Stonewall Riots?
Johnson first won his Senate seat in 1948 by this margin.
What is 87 votes?
What is The Other America?
In the Spring of 1965, MLK Jr. led a March from this city to Montgomery, Alabama to protest for greater voting rights.
What is Selma?
This 1920s leader was a forerunner of the Black Power movement, emphasizing black pride and advocating for separatism.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan, this group pushed for political legal and economic rights for women.
What is the National Organization of Women (NOW)?
Lyndon B. Johnson's wife.
Who is Ladybird Johnson?
Also known as "HUD" this was one of two cabinet level departments created by Johnson. The other is the Department of Transportation.
What is the Department of Housing and Urban Development?
The 1965 Voting Rights Act banned literacy tests and grandfather clauses. It also created a this provision for the federal government to intervene in state elections to protect civil rights.
What is preclearance?
A riot in this California neighborhood indicated that the problems of the Civil Rights movement were not limited to the old Confederacy.
What is Watts?
In 1990, activists organized the "Capitol Crawl" to demonstrate the inaccessibility of public spaces and secure the passage of this law.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?