1960s Politics
Efforts to increase Black voter registration and participation in the South in 1964 were called this.
What is Freedom Summer?
The violent reactions to sit-ins in Jacksonville on August 27, 1960, were known as this.
What is Axe Handle Saturday?
Loving v Virginia struck down state bans on this.
What is interracial marriage?
The Supreme Court under this chief justice expanded civil liberties and civil rights in several landmark decisions such as Brown v Board of Education.
What is the Warren Court (Earl Warren)?
The Supreme Court case protected a woman's right to an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy until recently being overturned.
What is Roe v Wade?
He was accused of assassinating John F Kennedy.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
He became president after the assassination of JFK.
Who is Lyndon Johnson (LBJ)?
This is the term for LBJ's plan to improve, healthcare, education, civil rights, and unemployment.
What is Johnson's Great Society?
Many early nonviolent protests in the civil rights movement were organized by this organization of young people.
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
The LGBTQ+ movement began when police raided this bar in New York City.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
This is the name of the mobilization of Mexican Americans to expand their civil rights, political power, and combat police brutality.
What is the Chicano Movement?
This was the term given to LBJ's efforts to improve education and job training for the nation's poor.
What is the War on Poverty?
He was the Muslim civil rights leader that took a more militant approach than Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Malcolm X?
He won the presidency in 1968 despite losing several key southern states to segregationist George Wallace.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The Students for a Democratic Society began this new progressive movement in the 1960s.
What is the New Left?
Martin Luther King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech occurred during which event?
What is the March on Washington?
By the end of the 1960s, the civil rights movement was shifting more towards these tactics, led by Malcolm X.
What is militancy (such as the Black Panthers)?
These two social programs under Johnson were created to give healthcare to the poor and elderly.
What are Medicaid and Medicare?
This emphasized Black racial pride and empowerment.
What is the Black Power Movement?
He was the chairman of the SNCC, was beaten in Selma, AL, and went on to serve in Congress for decades.
Who is John Lewis?
He was one of the leaders of the group that fought for Latin American rights whose legacy has become tarnished after recent allegations of sexual assault.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
During Kennedy's presidency, unemployment dropped and the GNP rose primarily due to this.
What are Kennedy's tax cuts?
These events of the civil rights movement were mostly participated in by Black and White students from the north.
What are Freedom Rides?
The Equal Rights Amendment was blocked after opposition from this conservative woman led a campaign against it.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
This law gave banned literacy tests and gave the federal government the power to intervene in elections in states with a history of discrimination.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This organization was created to address inequality of Native Americans and reclaim land and money lost in broken treaties.
What is the American Indian Movement (AIM)?
He was the founder and leader of the organization that fought for Native American rights.
Who is Dennis Banks?
Who is Stokely Carmichael?
The Voter Rights Act of 1965 was passed as a result of this infamous event in Selma, AL, according to John Lewis.
What is Bloody Sunday?
The first sit-ins were held in 1960 in this city.
What is Greensboro, NC?
This portion of the Education Act on 1972 banned sexual discrimination in higher education including athletics.
What is Title IX?
This law banned discriminatory immigration quotas based on national origin.
What is the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1964?
This women's civil rights organization was founded in 1966.
What is the National Organization of Women (NOW)?
She was the first Black president of the organization that fought for women's civil rights.
Who is Aileen Hernandez?
He was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964 who pushed the party further to the right with his criticism of moderates but was defeated by Johnson.
Who is Barry Goldwater?