unit 12 Flashcards
(34 cards)
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1954 brown v board (4)
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- landmark Supreme Court case
- overturned plessy v ferguson
- ruled school segregation
- must be ended
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naacp (5)
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- national association
- for the advancement
- of colored people
- organizations that works for equal rights
- for poc
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little rock, Arkansas (5)
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- at central high in little rock
- the governor and kkk
- tried to stop the admittance of black students
- into an all white school
- Eisenhower intervened and used federal troops to guarantee their admission
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rosa parks (5)
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- civil rights activist
- who refused to move seats to the back of the bus
- her decision sparked the Montgomery bus boycott
- a year later Supreme Court
- ordered the end of segregation in Montgomery bus system
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dr mlk jr (4)
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- civil rights activist
- used non violent protests
- to end racial discrimination
- against poc
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southern christian leadership conference (3)
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- religious
- and civil rights group
- that was lead by mlk
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civil rights act of 1957 (3)
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- set up a civil rights commission
- and a civil rights division in the department of justice
- to ensure black votes were not denied
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civil rights act of 1960 (3)
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- required voting registrars
- to retain their records for investigation
- by fed officials if necessary
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Greensboro sit ins (4)
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- students in Greensboro
- staged sit-ins at a local woolworths
- where the lunch counter was for whites only
- sparked sit-ins all over the south
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sncc (4)
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- student non violent coordinating committee
- students who used mon violence
- as a means to fight racism
- and segregation
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core (2)
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- congress of racial equality
* fought for racism and segregation
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freedom riders (5)
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- groups of blacks and whites
- who rode buses
- all over the south
- in an attempt to end segregation
- in public transit
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civil rights law of 1964 (6)
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- forced desegregation of schools
- and other public facilities
- outlawed job discrimination
- based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
- reduced the power of local voting boards
- to discriminate based on literacy tests
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Jack Kerouac (3)
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- most prominent of a group of 60s writers wnd intellectuals
- known as beatniks
- rebelled against society
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Levittown (3)
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- name giver to suburbs
- built all over the nation
- during the 50s
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black panthers (4)
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- paramilitary group organized by Huey Newton and bobby seale
- advocated black power and equal rights
- for blacks who were subjected to discrimination and segregation
- in their communities
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Malcolm X (2)
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- once a spokesman for the black Muslim movement
* eventually developed his own beliefs in his fight for black equality
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Cesar Chavez (4)
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- activist
- United farm workers organization
- in response to low paying jobs
- for farm workers
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aim (3)
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- young urban Native American activists
- who protested against poor conditions on reservations
- wanted restitution for past mistreatment
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domino theory (3)
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- theory that if one asian nation
- fell into communism
- all of them will follow
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lbj (3)
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- took over for jfk
- passed many of his bills
- through his domestic policy the great society
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Miranda v AZ (3)
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- most important case spelling the rights of the accused
- where “you have the right to remain silent” came from
- cemented that state and local authorities must grant all of the accused the same rights
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engel v vitale and 1962 (3)
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- Supreme Court ruled that schools cannot force
- students to say prayer at the beginning of the day
- or at any time of the day
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Betty Friedan (3)
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- wrote the feminine mystique
- which attacked the attitude that women could only be housewives
- led to the formation of NOW
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great society (4)
* same for johnsons domestic programs
* he wanted to improve the lives of all Americans
* with programs such as head start
* and the elementary and secondary education act
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gulf of Tonkin resolution (6)
* resolution by lbj
* that he used to justify
* increased US intervention
* in Vietnam
* where there was a report of an attack
* on US ships in the gulf of Tonkin
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tet offensive (4)
* early 1968
* NV launched successful tet offensive
* against SV
* showed american public that this was was not such an easy victory as the govt reporter
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my lai (3)
* an attack on w Vietnamese village
* accused of hiding Vietcong
* where hundreds of innocent villagers were attacked
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counterculture (3)
* young people of the 60s
* expressing themselves through music, drugs, dress, and communal living
* called hippies
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student democratic society (3)
* at first preached autonomy and liberty
* for equal rights
* but eventually became more militant
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SALT (2)
* strategic arms limitation treaty
| * THATD limit milit build up btwn 2 superpowers
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detente (4)
* a policy developed by Nixon and Kissinger
* focused on easing tensions btwn the U.S. and the Soviet Union
* during the Cold War
* though negotiations such as SALT
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Kent state (3)
* uni in Ohio
* four ppl were shot
* protesting in Vietnam war
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Vietnamization (6)
* nixons policy
* of a gradual pull out of American troops
* from Vietnam
* while supplying south Vietnamese troops
* with money, weapons, and training
* to continue the war themselves
