Civil Rights Movement
Ending racial segregation and securing equal rights for all Americans was the goal of this movement.
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King Jr supported this type of moemenvt because he believed it would convince the public of the righteousness of the movement's goals.
Nonviolent Movement
In 1963, around 250,000 people marched on Washington demanding what?
The passage of civil rights laws
What were conditions like in the Vietnam War?
heavy monsoon rains
Feared being harassed by police or fired from their jobs kept African Americans from speaking out against what?
Segregation.
This was a common tactic used to desegregate lunch counters.
Sit-ins.
This president persuaded Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Johnson
The policy of containment led the US into war into these two countries.
Vietnam and Korea.
Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat to a white man on a segregated bus started what?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
President Eisenhower did this when trying to protect the first black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas.
Sent in Federal Troops
Literacy tests were outlawed as a result of this law.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
This is a law that limited the power of Labor Unions.
Taft-Hartley Act
This famous court case declared that school segregation was illegal.
Brown vs the Board of Education
Martin Luther King Jr did this when he was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama.
Wrote a letter explaining the goals of the Civil Rights Movement.
This movement embraced the use of violence to reach equality for African Americans.
Black Power Movement.
What did white people often associate "zoot suits" with, often unfairly?
Gangs and Violence
During the Montgomery bus boycott, this famous individual emerged as an important leader of the Civil Rights movement.
Martin Luther King Jr.
This group of people were recruited to protest in Birmingham when fewer people became less willing to participate.
Children
Malcom X was a strong supporter of these two things?
Black power and black pride.
What was the goal of the government’s Manhattan Project?
to develop the atomic bomb