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Feminist Movement
Also known as the Women Liberation Movement refers to a series of political campaigns. The issues were domestic violence, equal pay, and women's suffrage. All the events fall under the label of Feminism. -
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Cesar Chavez
He was an American labor leader civil rights activist. He became the best known Latino American and strongly promoted by American labor movement. -
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Black Power Movement
The progress was made by African Americans in 1950s and early 1960s. They were trying to achieve their civil rights was compromised by violence. Its used by African Americans in the United States. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The US Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren deliver the landmark civil rights cased. It was called Brown v Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas. Which the court declared state laws establishing separate publics schools for black and whites. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
In which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Alabama. Before the Boycott began a woman named, Rosa Parks, refused to get out of her seat while a white man asked her to get out and later on she got arrested. Its regarded as the first large-scale against segregation. -
SCLC
It stands for Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Its mainly an African American civil rights movement and Martin Luther King had a strong role in this Movement -
Little Rock Crisis
In 1957, Central High was an all white school and Arkansas governor wanted to prevent blacks enrolling at Central High School. President Eisenhower sent 1,000 army troops to enroll the blacks without further violent disturbances. -
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Latino Movement
Also called, Chicano Civil Rights Movement it was a civil rights movement. The movement extended the Mexican American Civil Rights movement. The main goal of this was achieving Mexican empowerment. -
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Freedom Riders
It was probably the most inspirational story of six months in America. The leader of tis was named Fred Shuttlesworth. The group rode a bus into serrated southern parts of the US. When they got to a certain part they challenged local laws or customs. -
The Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan
The book was published by Betty Friedan. The book was sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in US. By 1964, it became the best selling non-fiction book in all of United States. -
March on Washington
It was held on August 18, 1963 in Washington, D.C. More than 200,000 Americans for a huge political rally. Only organized by civil rights and religious groups. The March made a key moment fro Martin Luther Kings 'I Have A Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination of the race. It was first proposed by John F. Kennedy and then later on signed into law by Kennedy's successor. Also, Congress expanded the act bringing equality to African Americans. -
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Selma March
In the March, protesters were attempting to march from Selma to the capital of Montgomery. The march was held for 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the capital Montgomery. -
Counterculture- Woodstock
It was a Music and Art Fair informally known as the "Woodstock Festival". A Musical Festival attaching an audience of 400,000 people over a 3 days on a Dairy Farm. Located in White Lake, New York. -
Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
The book was originally published on Jan. 1, 1971 by Stokely Carmichael. The book traces the dramatic changes in hi sown and black Americans that took place during the Civil Rights and Black Power.
