Chapter 29 Flashcards
a political ideology encouraging African Americans to create their own institutions and
develop their own economic resources independent of White people
Black Power
a cultural movement among African Americans to encourage pride in their African heritage
and to substitute African and African American art forms, behaviors, and cultural products for those of
White people
Black Pride
an ideology that called upon African Americans to reject integration with the White
community and, in some cases, to physically separate themselves from White people in order to create
and preserve their self-determination
Black separatism
a new military strategy under the Kennedy administration to suppress nationalist
independence movements and rebel groups in the developing world
counterinsurgency
a military strategy that allows for the possibility of responding to threats in a variety of
ways, including counterinsurgency, conventional war, and nuclear strikes
flexible response
Lyndon Johnson’s plan to eliminate poverty and racial injustice in the United States and to
improve the lives of all Americans
Great Society
Kennedy’s use of ships to prevent Soviet access to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
naval quarantine
the political manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society that called for social
reform, nonviolent protest, and greater participation in the democratic process by ordinary Americans
Port Huron Statement
the section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited discrimination in employment on the
basis of gender
Title VII
Lyndon Johnson’s plan to end poverty in the Unites States through the extension of federal
benefits, job training programs, and funding for community development
war on poverty
