Chapter 5&6 Flashcards
Earl Warren
supreme court
- as chief justice of the supreme court he assaulted legal inequality, entrenched oligarchies, social injustice and conservative moral codes.
Zeitgeist
the German word for the political, cultural, and/or spiritual of the times in history
Loving vs Virginia
it made it illegal for states “to retain laws on their books that made marriage across racial lines a crime”
Griswold vs. Connecticut
it declared laws limiting access to birth control “violated the right of marital privacy and thus were unconstitutional”
Roe vs. Wade
it decided “that an abortion in the first trimester of a pregnancy was legal despite local laws”
Mapp vs. Ohio
it held that evidence obtained without a search warrant violated the illegal searches and seizures provision of the constitution
Gideon vs. Wainwright
the “defendant in a criminal trial before a state court must be defended by an attorney”
Escobedo vs. Illinois
it established the “right to a lawyer before a suspect was indicted while he or she was merely being interrogated”
Miranda vs. Arizona
it established the “right of a criminal suspect, before interrogation, to be informed by the police of his or her right to an attorney and the right to be silent under the fifth amendment
American Civil Liberities Union
back in the 1920’s, this secular-minded organization “challenged a state law making teaching of evolution in public schools a crime”
Americans for a Democratic Society
it was dedicated to further extension of the New Deal social welfare system, international peace, and racial justice.”
Multiversity
to use the university to further industrialize the nation
Tom Hayden
he drafted the Port Huron Statement
Todd Gitlin
in 1960, he joined a Harvard group called TOCSIN, against nuclear weapons from 1963-64, he was president of SDS
C. Wright Mills
his book The Power Elite detailed the relationships and class alliances among political, military, and economic elites
William Apple Williams
he was one of the 20th century’s most prominent revisionists historians of American diplomacy and of the New Left
New Left
it began “in the mid-50’s by a group of left-wing British intellectuals who supported socialism and after 1960 it spread to the US
Students for a Democratic Society
in spring 1960 this campus organization was established at the university of Michigan to advance socialist ideas and policies
Port Huron Statement
a 1962 manifesto that called for participatory democracy, both as means and an end based on non-violent civil disobedience
Economic Research and Action Project
it was rediscovery of the old agent of change, namely the oppressed working class and thus replaced the focus from campus organizing to community action
Saul Alinsky
he was a community organizer considered to be the founder of modern community organizing the noted for his book Rules for Radicals
Mario Savio
he was a college student from NYC who was active in the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration drive in Mississippi
Jack Weinburg
in 1964, Jack was sitting at a table at UC-Berkeley and when he refused to show ID, the police arrested him
Edmund Brown
he was the governor of California when weinburg was arrested at UC-Berekeley promising to maintain law and order on campus
