History 103 Exam 3

Question 1

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 1

African Americans did not ride the bus. 381 Days

Question 2

Cesar Chavez

Answer 2

Union leader. The face of the Latino Movement. 1968 nationwide boycott. Founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Strike against grape growers.

Question 3

Hart Cellar Act

Answer 3

1965, ends quota system in place since 1924 which had excluded immigration from Asia and severely limited it from Africa, southern and eastern Europe.

Question 4

Civil Rights Act

Answer 4

1964, passed by congress. Prohibited racial discrimination in employment. Ends Jim Crow but on Federal Level, banned discrimination of sex.

Question 5

Voting Rights Act

Answer 5

1964, June, 3 Civil rights activists kidnapped and killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi

Question 6

Brown vs Board of Education

Answer 6

Desegregated schools, 1954, “Second Emancipation” Earl Warren. Public Schools Only.

Question 7

Looking for Mr. Good bar

Answer 7

Stars Diane Keaton as Theresa Dunn, confronting new sexual freedoms of age
By day, teach of deaf children; by night, a “swinger” prowling singles bars for sex on her own terms.

Question 8

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 8

Forms in 1962; author Port Huron Statement. Advocated for new society rooted in “democracy of individual participation”

Question 9

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer 9

a proposed amendment to the US Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one’s sex.

Question 10

Presidential Commission on Obscenity and

Pornography

Answer 10

Commissioned by LBJ; released in Aug 1970
Called for a massive sex education effort aimed at the acceptance of sex as normal and natural part of life
Erotic materials do not contribute to antisocial behavior, crime, or delinquency