Progressives
This political party did not win just the support of farmers but also miners in Idaho and Colorado and industrial workers
Who are the Populists?
In the 1921, this town erupted in a ghastly race riot in which whites destroyed what was known as a "Black Wall Street" where more than 35 city blocks were leveled
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
I led the NAACP with the help of Ida B. Wells
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The sinking of this boat started to question the position of the isolations during World War I
What is the Lusitania?
Started the Hull House, and focused on improving the condition of immigrants including urban hygiene
Who is Jane Addams?
He led the Pullman Strike of 1894, and the American Railway Union, and was a socialist
Who is Eugene Debs?
After a routine traffic stop in 1965, this section of Los Angeles erupted exposing deep racial and economic injustice
What are the Watts riots?
I was hesitant about integration feeling that job security was more important
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Germany promised Mexico to get back land they lost during the Mexican American War in this secret message
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
She started Planned Parenthood, but identified with eugenics which targeted immigrants and African Americans
Who is Margaret Sanger?
In 1886, this union had advocated for the eight hour work day, and admitted women, Native Americans and African Americans
What is the Knights of Labor?
This is union was led by Samuel Gompers and nearly all were white, male and native-born. Later they supported the Immigration Act of 1924.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
His Letter from a Birmingham Jail would have made Henry David Thoreau shout "you go girl"
Who is Martin Luther King?
Off the coast of Hanoi, the USS Turner Joy and Maddox experience a "torpedo attack" giving President Johnson what he needed to fight the Vietnam War alone.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Bans on medical literature on contraceptives were created by this legislator, hence the laws were named after him
Who is Anthony Comstock?
At least 40,000 African Americans from the South were led to Kansas in 1877 by this gentleman
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
This union rejected the AFL's exclusionary policies in its membership and sought to revolutionize the means of production for the working class. They were led by Big Bill Haywood
What is the International Workers of the World?
Led the integrated bus ride to Alabama, president of SNCC, and wanted to give the marchers a piece of his mind at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963
Who is John Lewis?
Junior Senator from Wisconsin used HUAC to investigate and blacklist suspected communists
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Wrote the Feminine Mystique but unfortunately was prone to the Lavender Scare
Who is Betty Friedan?
He brought attention to the 2 million child laborers by taking photographs in factories
Who is Lewis Hine?
This strike was led by this union which was known as the Bread (fair wages) and Roses (dignity of life) Strike of 20,000 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts
What is the International Workers of the World?
"What we need is power now," as he took over the leadership of SNCC riding the back of a Black Panther
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
This president was willing to commit up to 200 million dollars to contain communism in the middle east under this "Doctrine"
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
He signed into law the first workmen's compensation law, and was a deep advocate for a minimum wage law as a Progressive from the state of Wisconsin
Who is Robert LaFollette?
She wrote an exposé on Standard Oil that caused its downfall after her father had lost his business to Rockefeller
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Under unionism and labor radicalism, they achieved judicial gains in this fundamental right in the US Constitution.
What is the freedom of expression or speech?
Often they were taken for granted in the civil rights movement and mansplained to often.
Multiple answers apply: Black people, women. etc.
This attorney general would use the newly found powers of the FBI to wiretap, surveil labor radicals, anarchists, etc during First Red Scare
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
He promoted self-reliance in African American communities and was a member of the Nation of Islam which may have been responsible for his death
Who is Malcolm X?
This was the first anti-trust measure passed in 1890
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
In 1968, New York Radical Women threw items that objectified women in this at Atlantic City?
What is a Freedom Trash Can?
He threatened to lead a March on Washington but FDR panicked and gave African Americans Executive Order 8022
Who is Asa Philip Randolph?
Bonus: What other march did he help organize?
This Senator from North Dakota exposed that weapons manufacturers and JP Morgan had pressured Wilson to get the United States involved in World War II
Who is Gerald Nye?
Tom Hayden and the Port Huron Statement were associated with this Anti-War protest group
Who are the Students for a Democratic Society?
He provided a photographic record of urban poverty and blight called How the Other Half Lives
Who is Jacob Riis?
At this event in the city of Chicago in 1968 protesters broke away from the Democratic Party amidst a massive police beating
What is the Democratic National Convention?
Was a member of SNCC and eventually led the Black Panthers, and advocated for African Americans self-defense and armed resistance
Who is H Rap Brown?
These isolationist minded acts, allowed US weapons to sent to war zones on a "cash and carry" basis during the brewing catastrophe of WWII
The Neutrality Acts
This gave Americans the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy
What is Roe v. Wade 1973?