Consciousness Revolution Flashcards
(30 cards)
Muhammad Ali
African American boxer, world champion of heavyweight class. Black Muslim, used to be Cassius Clay.
Apollo 11
The space vehicle that carried 3 three American astronauts to the moon and back in 1969.
As not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country
JFK saying.
Bay of pigs
Location of Cuban missile crisis
Black Muslims
Radical movement for black power rejected Christianity.
Black panthers
Black power organization, Huey Newton.
James Earl Carter
President, peanut farmer and navel officer, cautious.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Federal action against segregation in public stuff.
Civil Rights Movement
Effort made by black people to end segregation and gain equal rights.
Counterculture
Protest movement by American youth
Counterculture
Protest movement by American youth.
Generad Ford
President communicate batter with congress watergate scandal.
Betty Friedan
Author and political activist, feminine mystique. National organization for women.
Hippies
Cultural protest, free love, drugs, say no to Vietnam War.
Jimmy Haffa
Leader who built teamsters union into a powerful organization despite corruption, probably murdered.
Nelson Mandela
Prominent leader of south aftican blacks struggle against apartheid. President of South Africa, co winner of Nobel prize for peace.
Mother Teresa
Roman Catholic nun who received the Nobel prize for peace for humanitarian work among lepers and other dying of Calcutta.
My lai massacre
Mass killings of helpless inhabitants of a village in Vietnam war.
New Left
Radical movement where new leftists opposed the military industrial complex and involvement of the us in Vietnam war.
Richard Nixon
Member of congress strong support for investigation of alleged communist, President that was in danger of being impeached so he quit.
Religious Right
Right wing Protestant fundamentalist leaders active in politics.
Roe vs Wade
Controversial supreme courts decision in 1973 on the right to privacy, abortion.
Silent Majority
Richard nixion where he thought that the maturity believed him and only the noisy where speaking up against him.
Six day war
Fought in 1967 by Israel vs Egypt Syria and Japan, Israel wins and took/held some land.