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Gideon v. Wainwright
Court ruled that a defendant in a state court had the right to a lawyer.
Voting rights act of 1965
Protected voters from discriminatory practices
Immigration act of 1965
Ended the system established in the 1920s that gave preference to Northern European immigrants
The 14th amendment ensures…
No State shall deprive any person or life, liberty or property with due process of law
Alan Shepard
First American in space
Earl warren
Chief Justice of the US issued several rulings reshaped politics & society
John Glenn
First American to orbit earth
Neil Armstrong
First human to walk on the moon
Cuban missile crisis
Soviet Union made missiles & US threatened nuclear war, both agreed to stop.
Bay of pigs
Fidel Castro had overthrown the corrupt Cuban dictator in 1959 and created strong ties with the Soviet Union
SNCC- student nonviolent coordinating committee
They were part of the civil rights movement made up of mostly African Americans and some Caucasians
CORE- congress of racial equality
Founded by James farmer and George houser. Used sit ins to desegregate restaurants that refused to serve African Americans
Southern manifesto
It denounced the supreme courts ruling as “a clear abuse of judicial power” and pleaded to use all lawful means to reverse the decision
Black panthers
Called for an end to racial oppression and for control of major institutions in the African Americans community
Black Muslims
Preached black nationalism.
Malcolm X
A symbol of the black power movement, he thought violence was the answer
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He used his position as a minister to preach his message of nonviolent resistance
Fannie Lou Hammer
SNCC organizer and sharecroppers who was evicted from her farm after registering to vote
Thurgood Marshall
From 1939 to 1961 the NAACP chief council and director of its legal defense and educational fund African American attorney
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. That was the spark that launched the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955
Stokely Carmichael
The leader of SNCC in 1966
Linda Brown
An African American girl who was denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas, because of her race.
Ella baker
Former NAACP official and SCLC executive director, urged students to establish the student nonviolent coordinating committee in 1960
Le Duc Tho
North Vietnam’s representative he entered secret negotiations with Kissinger
