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Period: 1940 BCE to
Latino Movement
The Latino movement was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American rights. The goal of this movement was to give mexicans empowerment. -
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The Feminist movement
The feminist movement was arguing that women should have the same rights as men like voting and equal pay. The movement also helped women's issues like domestic violence, maternity leave and women's suffrage. -
NAACP
The NAACP means the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This association is to make sure to ensure that colored people have their rights like education, social and economic equality. In 1909 was when it was founded. The following were just 2 of the founders W.E.B Du Bois and Ida B. Wells. -
Betty Friedan
She was an American writer, activist and feminist. Betty was a very important person in the Feminsit movement with her book The Feminist Mystique also she was the cofounder that was elected for the first president of the National Organization for Women. -
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Black Power
Black power is a term used in the mid - 1960s but it has be around since the - 1950s. Since discrimination was happening at the time african americans would use that term to show they have power even though they are black. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark of the United States Supreme Court case. Then the court declared state laws separating public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement. It was also a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation. -
Counterculture
Counterculture is a subculture in which behaviors and values are different from everyday life. Also it expresses aspirations of a specific population during a well defined era. -
Hippies (subculture)
Hippies origin may be traced to European social movements in the 19th and early 20th century. The Hippies subculture began in the untied states though but then quickly emerged all around the world. There are even hippies in this present day. -
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists that rode buses into southern United States in 1961 which was very segregated. From that 436 individuals participated in at least 60 separate Freedom Rides. -
The March on Washington
The march was for jobs and freedom and more than 200,000 Americans gathered for this political rally. This was such a key moment that it culminated into Martin Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark. It outlawed discrimination on race, sex, religion, color, and national origin. -
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The Selma March
The Selma March was to Montgomery it was 54- miles long going from Selma, Alabama to the State Capital of Montgomery. The Alabama troopers attacked civil rights - demonstrators. -
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Watts Riot
This riot took place at Watts, Los Angeles, California United States and 34 people died, 3,438 people were arrested and 1,032 people were injured. All of this happened when a African American motorist was driving while drunk which then broke out into an argument. -
Martin L. King's assassination
Martin was assassinated on April 4th 1968 by James Earl Ray. Ray shot Martin and killed him but in the following month of March he confused his crime of killing Martin L. King.
