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27 Cards in this Set
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GI Bill
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readjustment act of 1944
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/ciybcuk if ecibinuc advusers
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to confer with that president on economic policy
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Taft Harley Act
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it gave judges the power to end sme strikes and oulawed closed-shop agreements
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committee on civil
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to examine racial issues
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J strom thurmond
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presidential candidate
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henry wallace
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the other liberal news dealers left the democratic party
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Thomas dewey
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of new york as their presidential candidate
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Fair Deal
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trumans fair deal promised full employment a higher minumum wage
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George meany
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AFL CIO'S first president.
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highway act
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1956 also contibuted to suburban growth
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baby boom
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Having a crap ton of more children
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Juvenile delinguency
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antisocial behavior by the young
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rock n roll
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this music rewroked rthym and blues
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elvis presley
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emerged as rocks leading talent
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Brown v board of education
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it involved Linda Brown and African American student from topeka
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Thurgood Marshal
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argued on browns behalf
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Little rock nine
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from entering the shchool
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Rosa Parks
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an african american seamstress provied the naacp with its opportunity
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Montgomery improvement
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a group of lacal civil rights leaders
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Martin Luther King JR.
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a 26 year old baptist minister
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Civial rights act of 1957
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bill made it a federal crime to prevent qualified person from voting
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LULAC
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formed in 1929 adopted many of the same tactics to fight for hispanic right s.
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Felix longoria
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was a mexican american soldier killed during ww2
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Ralph ellison
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published invisible man in 1952
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Beats
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a small but influentioal group of writers and poets
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Jack Kerouac
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his novel on the road was written in a continuous three week long session
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Urban renewal p
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programs
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