U.s. Hist- The Sixties

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Hart-Cellar Act

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Abandoned the national-origins quota system of immigration, which had excluded Asians and severely restricted southern and eastern Europeans. Established new, racially neutral criteria for immigration.

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The Great Society

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Lyndon Baines Johnson moved quickly to establish himself in the office of the Presidency. Despite his conservative voting record in the Senate, Johnson soon reacquainted himself with his liberal roots. LBJ sponsored the largest reform agenda since Roosevelt's New Deal.

– Medicaid & Medicare

crusade to eradicate poverty

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The War on Poverty

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– Food Stamps

– Education/Job Training

– Local Leadership

not on direct economic aid , but on equipping the poor w/ skills and rebuilding their spirit and motivation.

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Watts Riots

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The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. The riot spurred from an incident on August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a young African American motorist, was pulled over and arrested by Lee W. The outbreak of violence that followed Frye's arrest immediately touched off a large-scale riot centered in the commercial section of Watts, a deeply impoverished African American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles.

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Malcolm X

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Intellectual father of black power

insisted blacks must control the political and economic resources of their communities and rely on their own efforts, rather than working w/ whites.

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Black Power

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Term coined by Malcolm X. Slogan for those bitter over the federal government's failure to stop violence against civil rights workers.

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Martin Luther King (antiwar movement)

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Condemned the administration's Vietnam policy as an unconscionable use of violence and for draining resources from needs at home.

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The New Left (SDS) (antiwar)

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against war, b/c was not participatory democracy, since American involvement had come through secret commitment and decisions made by political elites. Organized antiwar rally.

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Tet Offensive (1968)

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Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops launched well-organized uprising in cities throughout South Vietnam, completely surprising American military leaders.

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Eugene McCarthy

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Antiwar senator from Minnesota announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination. Recieved more than 40 percent of vote in New Hamphire primary, w/ aid of students

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Seeking the democratic nomination as an opponent of the war; assassinated by Palestine nationalist

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Hubert Humphrey

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Thousands of antiwar activist descended on Chicago for protests at the democratic National convention, where the delegates nominated VP Humphrey as their presidential candidate.

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1968 Democratic Primary

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– Hubert Humphrey

– Eugene McCarthy

– Robert F. Kennedy

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Betty Friedan’s TheFeminine Mystique

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responsible for public reawakening of feminist

talked about unequal pay

suburban life made women slaves to husbands

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Equal Pay Act

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1963- barring sex discrimination among holders of the same job

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Civil Rights Act of 1964– Equal EmploymentOpportunityCommission (EEOC)

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EEOC established by the law became a major force in breaking down barriers in femlae employmet

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Chicano Movement

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United Farm Workers (UFW)

Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta

movement closely linked to labor struggles

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Cesar Chavez

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led series of nonviolent protest to pressure growers to agree to labor contracts w/ the UFW

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Dolores Huerta

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co-founder of UFW. In favor of R.F.Kennedy. Her efforts wereinstrumental in gaining passage of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), a 1975law that recognized the collective bargaining rights of agricultural workers in Californiafor the first time.