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Plessy v. Ferguson
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established seperate but equal facilities
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Scottsboro Boys case
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two black boys pulled off a train after quaraling with white boys - women claimed the boys raped them - life sentence
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A Philip Randolph
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"father of the civil rights movement" created idea of march on washington movement
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Presedential committee on civil rights
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.under Truman - expand civil rights section of the justice department and expanded laws against lynching
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Executive order 9981
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desegregation of the armed forces
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Eisenhower on Civil rights
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very conservative - didnt support it at first but appointed Earl Warren
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Brown v. Board of education
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(under Warren) - overturned Plessy v. Ferguson - seperate facilities is not equal
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Earl Warren
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appointed chief justice - very liberal and influential in the black cause (marshall defended Linda)
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Thurgood Marshall
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1st African American chief justice
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Southern manifesto
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response to Warren's liberalism in the courts - anti-liberal statement created by s. congressmen
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Orval Faubus
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orders national guard to prevent 9 black students from entering Central HS (little rock) Eisenhower sends troops
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Emmitt Till case
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Mississippi headline murder- Emmitt makes a pass at a white woman and is murdered
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Mongomery Bus Boycott
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.Sparked by Rosa Parks
.cheap taxi service aided boycotters |
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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creates "Southern Christian leadership conference" (sclc) and encourages nonviolent resistance
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Greensboro
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sitin on lunch counters, hotels, etc. by students and the Student nonviolent coordinating system (sncc)
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civil rights act of 1957
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prohibited discrimination in public places but not a big deal - was not enforced
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albany campaign
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in georgia - unsucessful
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Strom Thurmond
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longest filibuster in history (just keep talking so couldnt finish debate and vote on bills)
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Freedom Riders
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organized by CORE - tested Morgan v. Commonwealth ruling saying taht segregated buses = unconstitutional
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James Meredith
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1st black man to attend University of Mississippi - JFK sends troops to protect
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Governor George Wallace
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University of Alabama - "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segreg. forever" - later runds for prez. and changes stance
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Medgar Evers
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civil rights activist - assasinated
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16th street Baptist church
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4 black girls killed in bombing
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Freedom Summer
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effort to organize voting campaigns
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24th amendment
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abolishes the poll tax (the poll tax was a registration fee for voting)
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Civil rights bill of 1964
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forbade segregation in hotels, motels, restaraunts, etc. - this time more enforced
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Title VII
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under civil rights bill-discrimination based on reace, religion, gender, and national orgin=illegal
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voting rights act of 1965
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eliminated ridiculous literacy test that many blacks had to take to vote
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affirmative action
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a certain ratio of people would be counted... ex= colleges give benefits to blacks
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swann v. charlotte-mecklenburg borad of education
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desegregation of buses
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Bakke case
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racial quotas = unlawful (ex.=a white man denied from berekely b/c he was white)
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Nation of Islam
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black Muslim movement - most notable & well-organized
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Malcom x
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.said not to be passive
."any means necessary" |
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Stokely Carmichael
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promoted black nationalism
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Huy Newton and Bobby Seal
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early organizers of the Black Panthers
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Watts riots and detroit riots
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began after an arrest of a black motorist - in NY & NJ
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Kerner Commission
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appointed by LBJ to investigate watts and detroit riots - found that blacks felt powerless
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Charles Stuart
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shoots pregnant wife and blames it on a black man
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Susan Smith
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drowns children in a car and blames it on a black man
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Rodney King beating
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sparks riots
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election of 1948
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Truman defeats Dewey
.dixiecrats rise against Truman but fail |
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Truman's Fair Deal 1949
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preserved new deal programs but couldnt add to it
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GI Bill of rights 1944
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housing and educational aid to veterans - response to unemployment fears
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Taft-Hartley Act 1947
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outlawed "closed shops" & limited unions' power (closed shops=requirement of membership to union to work)
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Levitt towns
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suburban assembly line production of housing - "white flight" to suburbs
.1st one in NY |
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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"the affluent society" - praises the 50's
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John Clellon Holmes
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termed the "beat generation" for the 50's
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Dr. Jonas Salk
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vaccine for polio
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Election of 1960
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JFK v. Nixon - JFK wins b/c better spoken on tv
.series of 4 debates |
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New Frontier
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JFK's policy
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Warren Commission
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investigate JFK's assasination - "magic bullet theory" - Lee Harvey Oswald couldntve done by himself + Jack Ruby murdered Oswald
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Election of 1964
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LBJ wins w/ his "great society" platform & his war on poverty
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Medicare Act of 1965 & Medicaid
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under LBJ - help the elderly and underpriveledged respectively
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HUD
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Housing and Urban Devlopment under LBJ
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immigration act of 1965
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discontinued national origins system from 1920's
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"new left" & counterculture
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associates with protesting (esp. the viet. war), drugs, sex, and rock'n roll & "flower children"
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Timothy Leary & Woodstock
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encouraged use of LSD & became counterculture leader
.woodstock = party area in SF |
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reapportionment decisions
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in Baker V. Carr & Wesberry V. Sanders (under Warren)
.tried to eliminate gerrymandering of black votes - made their voice more significant |
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mapp v. Ohio
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(under Warren) established necessity of search warrants
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Glideon Vv. Wainright,
Escobedo v. IL, Miranda v. AZ |
these three cases mainly protected the accused (right to a lawyer..etc...)
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Abington School District v. Schempp
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forced prayer banned in public schools
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Griswold v. Connecticut
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(a couple broke the law by using contraceptives) this established a right to privacy
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Warren E. Burger
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replaced Earl Warren as chief justice
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Alice Paul
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push for equal rights ammendment - never succeeds
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Betty Friedan
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"Feminine Mystique" and founded "national orginization for women" (NOW)
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the glass ceiling
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term applied to women and the invisible barrier keeping them from advancing in society
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Roe v. Wade
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(under Burger) legalized abortion
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Title IX
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guaranteed equal access for girls to all programs
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Sally Ride & Geraldine Ferraro
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1st female in space & 1st female vp candidate for a major political party respectively
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Caesar Chavez
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leading spokesperson for Mexican Amer. rights - led the United Farm Workers Organization Committee (UFWOC)
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