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Emmett Till

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he was murdered on August 1955 this was an eye opener for many

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Thurgood Marshall

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Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice. victory in Brown v. Board of Education

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John Lewis

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One of the “Big Six” leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, John Lewis has continued to fight for people’s rights since joining Congress in 1987 he was a part of the freedom riders

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bull Connor

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was a racist sheriff in Selma Alabama

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NAACP

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national association for the advancement of colored people

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SCLC

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the southern Christian leadership conference

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NATION OF ISLAM

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a religious organization based in the United States that encourages black nationalism in the name of Islam.1930

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SNCC (early)

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Student nonviolent coordinating committee

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Stokely Carmichael

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he lead the SNCC in 1960 he was best known for making the comment “we need black power”

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Elijah Muhammad

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was a leader of the NATION OF ISLAM

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James Meredith

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civil rights activist who became the first African American to attend the university of Mississippi in 1962

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Huey Newton and bobby Seale

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they were African-American political activist who founded the Black panther party in 1966

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Robert(bobby) Kennedy

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RFK was attorney general during his brother JFK administration. he later served as a US senator and was assassinated during his run for president

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JFK

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35TH PRESIDENT OF THE USA. assassinated november 1961

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de jure segregation

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not by law

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de facto segregation

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segregation by law

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integration

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a goal of the civil rights movement to overcome policies of segregation that have been practiced in the United States.

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Plessy v. Fergusson “separate but equal

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is a landmark constitutional law case of the US supreme court it upheld state racial segregational law for public facilities under the doctrine of separate but equal

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jim crow laws

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is based on the actor jim crow, he played as a racist steriotype of African-American even though he was white mandated the segregation of public schools, public places, and public transportation, and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants, and drinking fountains for whites and blacks.

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Brown vs Board of education

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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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with all deliberate speed

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The Brown decision declared the system of legal segregation unconstitutional.

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MIA

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The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was formed in the days following the December 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks, to oversee the Montgomery bus boycott. The organization would play a leading role in fighting segregation in the city and produce some of the civil rights movement’s most well-known figures.

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little rock nine

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The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African-American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. the governor tried to keep them out of their school while the government wanted to keep them in by sending in federal law it was the biggest standoff

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lunch counter sit ins

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February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused.

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freedom riders

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Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 they had trouble with the state law for there not enforcement

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Just vs unjust laws

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One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’

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SCLC

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC, which is closely associated with its first president, Martin Luther King Jr, had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.

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SNCC

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student nonviolent coordinating committee one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.

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civil disobedience

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the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

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Henry David Thoreau

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he created civil disobedience

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the war on poverty

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legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964

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medicare

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is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease

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medicaid

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is a health care program that assists low-income families or individuals in paying for long-term medical and custodial care costs.

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guns vs butter

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a simple production–possibility frontier. It demonstrates the relationship between a nation’s investment in defense and civilian goods.

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where was the Selma march

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the Edmund Pettus Bridge

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voting rights act of 1965

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it was to abolish poll taxes and literacy tests

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Nuremburg Trials

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The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, …

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Containment of communism

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keep communism contained to prevent it from spreading

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Nato commander

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Isenhower

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the border between north and south Korea

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38th parallel

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GI Bill of Rights

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Free college, cheap home loans and business loans fo the people that served in the war

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The Fair Deal

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Truman’s idea of FDRs society

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the leader of South Korea

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Syngman Rhee

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the leader of North Korea

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Kim 11 Sung

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Dixiecrat

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The Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention

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MAD

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Mutually assured destruction this caused bomb shelters from being and also bert the turtal becoming an icon

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We will bury you

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Nikita Khrushchev

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the leader of Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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the leader of North Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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the leader of South Vietnam

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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Henery Kissinger

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served as the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon

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17th parallel

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the barrier between North and South Vietnam

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Guns vs Butter

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the relationship between a nation’s investment in defense and civilian goods.

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Draft dodgers

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is an intentional decision not to comply with the military conscription policies of one’s nation

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Operation Rolling thunder

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7 air force squads bombed NV

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Defoliant or Agent Orange

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a chemical that removes the leaves from trees and plants and is often used in warfare. Agent Orange was its code name

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Detente

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the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

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Living room war

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From 1965 to 1975, television played an unprecedented role in shaping American perceptions of the Vietnam War.

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Credibility gap

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an apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true.

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My Lai Massacer

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The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

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UN

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The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order

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Security Council members

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China France Russia UK US

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warsaw pact

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Co-operation and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War

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the Selma march

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three protest marches, held in 1965, along with the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

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French Indochina War

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19 December 1946 and lasted until 1 August 1954. Fighting between French forces and their Viet Minh opponents in the South dated from September 1945

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Domino theory

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the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

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geneva accords

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which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. The agreement was reached at the end of the

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Napalm

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a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps.

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Ho Chi Minh Trial

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a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia

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