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Landmark case thay banned racial segregation in the nation's schools.
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A cease fire was wored out in the Genever Accords. Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. France would have to withdraw from the country.
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After Rosa Parks was arrested, the NAACP organized a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system for a day. 90% of African American riders stayed off that day.
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Representatives of groups in Atlanta, GA met to try and form a new group that would organize protest activities across the region. Known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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African American students protected by US soldiers who tried time and time again to get into Central High School
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Four college students in Greensboro, NC began a sit-in after ordering coffee at a linch counter at a Woolworth's Store. They were denied service, but they sat there until the store closed. After thay day hundreds more followed them.
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A rebellion of teens and young adults against mainstream American Soicety. They were called hippies and they believed that societal values were misplaced. They wanted to create an alternative culture based on peace and love.
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Gave financial assistance to the economically distressed regions.
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The CIA had Cuban citizens try to overthrow Castro to prevent Communism in Cuba.
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After the U.S. began building up troops in West Germany, Khrushchev responded by placing East German soldiers to guard a barbed wire fence dividing Berlin into two.
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A series of protests in Albany, Georgia that began with sit-ins in the Albany bus stations because the ICC rules were being ignored by local officials. The US Justice Dept. was notified, but no action was taken.
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This amendment banned states from taxing citizens to vote. Many states texed voters to deter African Americans from voting.
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The USSR placed many nuclear tipped missiles in Cuba. Kennedy had to carefully do things to get the missiles out of cuba or our nation wouldnt be here anymore.
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Bhuddists were lighting themselves on fire and killing themselves and that tainted the public outlook on Diem. So the U.S. told South Vietnam to overthrow him and they ended up killing him.
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President John Kennedy was shot during a motorcade through the city of Dallas to where he was going to deliver a speech. He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald who had connections with the USSR and Cuba. He was shot while police were transferring him to a jail.
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Lyndon Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One within hours after Kennedy's Assasination
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Johnson passed the Economic Opportunty Act that funded new antipoverty programs. He also offered work-training programs for unemployed youth.
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Became the term Johnson coined for the domestic programs of his administration.
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This banned discrimination in employment and in public accomodations. Johnson signed it supported civil rights and signed it.
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This resolution let the president take "all necessary measures to repel any army attack against forces of the United States."
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The counter culture had many protests. They wanted the freedom to say whatever they wanted whenever they wanted to.
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King began to campaign to gain voting rights for African Americans by organizing marches in Selma, Alabama. By the end of January, over 2,000 people who marched had been arrested.
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President Johnson orderd a bombing campaign over North Vietnam. He wanted to weaken their will to fight.
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Studenst for a Democratic Society were one of the most vocal anti war groups. They led the first national anti war demonstration.
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Gave federal governmaent powerful tools whith which to break down longstanding barriers to African American voting rights. Within three weeks over 27,000 African Americans registered to vote.
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Rodolfo Gonzales founded it. It promoted Mexican American nationalism. The group provided legal aid, a theater for enhancing cultural awareness, a Spanish language newspaper, and a school that offered children free bilingual classes and lessons in Chicano culture.
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Founded in Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party. They called for violent revolution as a means of African American Liberation.
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Mexican American Youth Organization. They wanted to achieve economic independence for themselves, to gain control over the education of Hispanic children, and to achieve power for Lationos through the creation of a third political party.
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They began their protest by fighting against police brutality in East Los Angeles. Then they began fighting for bilingual education, better school conditions, Chicano studies, and more Chicano teachers.
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This was the height of the hippie movement. The freedom the hippies wanted often led to many problems including drug addiction.
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After riots in Detroit, MI Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to study the causes of urban rioting. They blamed poverty and discrimination for the causes of riots.
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The Vietcong attack on the U.S. Embassy started with the Tet Offensive, which was a series of massive coordinated attacks throughout South Vietnam
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The American Indian Movement. It called for renewal of traditional cultures, economic independence, and better education for Indian children.They sometimes used forceful tactics.
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William Calley led troops into My Lai looking to kill Vietcong fighters. None were found and they ended up killing at least 450 women, children, and elderly men.
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Ater Bobby Kennedy flashed his victory sign in Los Angeles and after he walked off stage a gunman shot him three times. Sirhan Sirhan was from jordan and was angry about Kenndey's support for Israel.
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King led a march in Memphis, Tennessee on March 28th to the city hall and was going to speak at a rally on April 3rd. The next day James Earl Ray shot King with a high powered rifle.
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Thousands of protesters came to Washington, D.C. They thought they werent equal because they were poor and they wanted to change the public's view on them.
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President Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act just a week after Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated. It banned sicrimination in the sale or rental of housing
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After the war started the demand for soldiers increased. 30% of poeple tried to get out of it by going to college. 25% were excused for health reasons.
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Nixon won the election 43.4% to 42.7% against Hubert Humphrey. and 301 electoral votes to 191 to Humphrey.
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Native Americans tried to reclaim Alcatraz, which was a site of an abandoned federal prison in San Francisco. It lasted for 18 months, but then fedral marshalls removed them by force.
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This lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. This boosted McGovern's election chances.
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Andrew young played a major role in the Selma March and the Birmingham Campaign. He became the first African American Congressman since reconstruction.
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Landmark case that struck down laws against abortion in the Supreme court. It said that these laws violated a constitutional right to privacy.
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This law reaffirms Congress's constitutional right to declar war. It set a 60-day limit on the Presidents's call for war before he has to draw back the troops.
