The American 60s Flashcards
A Time of Hope, a Time of Unrest (20 cards)
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 16 to 28 October 1962
- a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
- Great Society
- Medicare and Medicaid (1965)
- Civil Rights Legislation
- Dramatically increased US involvement in Vietnam
Brown v. Board of Education
- 1954
- overturned Plessy v. Ferguston (separate but equal)
- separate educational facilities are inherently unequal
Major Civil Rights movement organisations
- NAACP
- SCLC
- CORE
- SNCC
NAACP
= National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- W.E.B. DuBois was the leading Black member
- led legal challenges to segregation and wanted anti-lynching law (unsuccessfully)
SCLC
= Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- made up of ministers from Black churches mostly
- first leader was Martin Luther King, Jr.
- best known for “non-violent” resistance to segragation across South
SNCC
= The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1955/56
- Rosa Parks, a Black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger and was arrested
- Black citizens of Montgomery organized a 381-day boycott
Lunch Counter sit-ins
- organized by students to protest segregation in eating facilities
- first in Greensboro in 1960
Freedom Rides
- 1961
- organized by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- protested segregation in interstate bus transportation
March on Washington
- August 1963
- massive civil rights protest
- Martin Luther King delivers his “I have a dream” speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
- banned segregation in public facilities
The 24th Ammendment
- 1964
- banned “poll taxes” that had been used to deny poor Blacks the right to vote
Voting Rights Act of 1965
- banned discriminatory practices in denzing Blacks (and others) the right to vote
Affirmative Action
- 1965 by president Johnson
- about employees being treated and hired equaly without regard to their race, creed, color or national origin
The New Left - SDS
= Students for a Democratic Society
- its participatory democracy, direct action, radicalism, student power, shoestring budgets and its structure have important influence in current national student activist groups
Free Speech Movement
- Berkeley 1964
- students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom
Kent State, May 1970
- violence against students
- for many this marked the end of student activism of the 1960s
Women´s Liberation
- Betty Friedan´s The Feminine Mystique
- 1972 - ERA Equal Rights Movement
Landing on the Moon
- July 20, 1969
- Neil Armstrong
