Unit 16: Social Change (1950s-1970s)
The Great Society
•______campaign to make country better
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–Money eventually taken away to help fund the ______
Civil Rights Movement
•History
–Civil Rights Act of 1875-
–1883-
–1896-
•Separate but equal is ______
–States pass Jim Crow laws-
•Facilities for blacks were…
Overcoming Segregation
•______created jobs for African Americans
–Served in the ______
–End of government ______(for a while)
NAACP
•______(NAACP)
–______campaign to end discrimination
–Focus on…
–Under…
Schools
•Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
–Marshall’s…
–Court unanimously…
–Within 1 year, 500 school ______
–Some protest and actively resist
•Court says…
Little Rock
•Don’t want to ______schools
•____ African American students try to go to school
•Governor of Arkansas turns them away with the ______
•Students are…
•1957 Civil Rights Act-
Bus Boycott
•NAACP officer Rosa Parks…
•______becomes leader of the movement
•Montgomery Improvement Association ______bus boycott
•They file…
•Boycott buses
•Puts an ______drain on the city
•People ______, use ______
•Community is…
•1956-
Soul Force
•MLK Jr. calls his brand of ______“Soul Force”
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Grass Roots vs. National Campaign
•Southern Christian Leadership Conference (______)
–Movement…
•Student Nonviolence Coordination Committee (______)
–Says change…
Pushing for Equality
•Congress of Racial Equality (______)
–Starts sit-in movement-
–First one in ______is shown on TV
–By late 1960, lunch counters are ______in 48 cites and 11 states
•CORE Freedom Rides-
–Riders are…
–One bus is ______
–Robert Kennedy…
–JFK sends ______to protect riders
–Interstate Commerce Commission Act-
•Ole Miss
–______tries to enroll at ______
•______at registrar
•JFK has U.S. Marshals to…
•Thousands of whites ______
•Meredith and his family need______
•Desegregate Birmingham
–Police attack…
–News shows these videos…
–King writes “______”
March to Washington
•1963-
•MLK Jr. gives…
More Violence
•______is murdered
•______bombed in Birmingham and…
•LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964-
Voting Rights
•Freedom Summer-
–Volunteers are…
–Businesses, homes, and churches are ______
•Form…
•______march stopped violently by police
•Voting Rights Act-
–Increases African American voter ______
Northern Segregation
•De facto segregation-
•De jure segregation-
•Clashes in the cities
–African Americans want…
–______in big cities
Black Power
•Some want ______from whites
–______, ______
•Malcom X-
–______with Black Muslims
–Killed in…
•Stokely Carmichael-
•Black Panthers-
King Dies
•MLK Jr. is…
–Death leads to worst urban ______
Latino Movement
•Latinos come from:
–______and live in Southwest
–______and settle in New York
–______flee communism
–______flee civil war and poverty
•All face ______and ______
Farm Workers
•Cesar Chavez-
–Set up ______
–Negotiate ______
Cultural Pride
•1968 Bilingual Education Act-
•Brown Berets-
Political Power
•Organize ______to nominate Latino candidates
•League of United Latin American Citizens-
•La Raza Unida-
•Reies Tijerina-
Native American Movement
•Want autonomy-
•Have poorest group…
•LBJ establishes…
•American Indian Movement (_____)
•Leads march to ______
•Want ______of land
•Violent confrontation with FBI over ______
•1970s-
•Courts recognize ______and give financial compensation
Women’s Rights Movement
•JFK’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
–Women are…
–Women seldom…
•Consciousness-raising groups-
•The Feminine Mystique-
•Feminism-
•Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)-
•National Organization for Women (NOW)-
•Gloria Steinem-
•More radical women stage ______
•Question taking husband’s ______
•Higher Education Act-
Roe vs. Wade
•Feminist support of…
•Case decides that…
–Claims women have the right to ______
•Very ______, even today
ERA
•______(ERA)-
–Conservative movement thinks…
–Phyllis Schafly-
–______in 1982
•Women face “______”
Counterculture
•“Tune in, Turn on, Drop out”
–Counterculture-
–Called ______
–Feel society and its materialism, technology, and war is ______
–Leave school, work, home
•Want to create…
Hippie Culture
•______, ______, ______, and ______
•Art uses commercial, impersonal, images from…
•Music
–______most influential rock band
–Woodstock festival-
•Over ______attend
New Right
•______build pro-family movement
–Focus on ______, ______, ______problems
–______support
–Debate ______issues with feminists
•Don’t like hippies
–Think counterculture values are a sign of ______in the country
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