civil rights Flashcards
(14 cards)
students for a democratic soceity
1962
port huron statement (a leftist political agenda that inspired the ‘new left’)
- eliminate poverty, racism, Cold War politics
feminism
baby boom -> women @ home -> 2nd wave fem
- feminist mystique
- national organisation for women (fought for but failed getting equal rights amendment)
- roe v wade
counter-culture
- elvis presley & women
- colourful shirts, drugs use, communal living, ‘free love’
international influence
- apartheid South Africa (nelson Mandela imprisoned for protesting apartheid)
- anti war sentiment from Vietnam
- afram fought with France during the war
Cold War influence
- attention to foreign policy highlighted domestic hypoxrisy
- tech boom: media spread
- students going into education
tactics used
- court cases (legal means)
- sit-ins (popular, symbolic demonstration)
- bus boycotts (interstate, gets federal gov involved)
- tv (broadcast, international/national awareness)
NAACP
legal means
anti lynching laws
brown v board
appealed to educated, middle-upper class AfrAm, liberal white Americans
national urban league
assists afram moving south in finding jobs
also helps migrants
core
sit ins
sclc
mlk + shuttlesworth
religious rhetoric
nonviolent indepence (ghandi, David Thoreau)
sncc
Ella baker - naacp and sclc not doing enough
student, youth, immediate changes
national farm workers association
cesar chavez
delano grape strike, want farmer workers to be let uninioze
JFK
new frontier
- education aid, healthcare, urban renewal, civil rights
- price rollbacks (challenged big steel exe)
- spending on space and defense stimulated economy
LBJ
expand new deal social reforms
- expanded Kennedy civil rights bill
- passed kennedys’ proposal for na income tax cut
job inc, consumer spending, Econ expansion
war on poverty
- office of economic opportunities (OEO) billion dollar budget
- self help for poor
head start for preeschoolers
job corps for education
