IB History #6 Flashcards
Poor People’s Campaign
Bring people of different race together and pressure…
- Anti-poverty campaign
- SCLC.
- bring people of different races together
-pressure the government provide economic assistance and human rights. - Ralph Abernathy continoued it when MLK died
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Speech
US to live up to its ideals and unity among…
- MLK Last speech
- U.S. to live up to its ideals
- Unity among AA’s
- Dedication to non-violence
Huey Newton
Co-founder & leader of the Black Panther Party
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Assasinated by James Eearl Ray.. riots break out in over…
- Memphis, Tennessee
- April 4, 1968
- James Earl Ray
- Riots break out in 100+ U.S. cities.
- Aftermath: Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1968
- AKA: Air Housing Act and the Indian Civil Rights Act.
- Title and VIII and IX prohibit discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin.
Black nationalism/Black Power
To nurture and promote black collective interests.
- Racial pride
- To nurture and promote black collective interests
- advance black values, and secure black autonomy.
- defense against racial oppression
- Black Power advocates for non-violent ideology for civil rights movement
Black Panther Party
protecting African Americans from police violence…
- militant organization
- protecting African Americans from police violence
- founded in Oakland, California
- 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
- Late 1960’s: organization spread to other cities
- community-organizing projects
- belief in armed self-defense = targeting by the police and violent clashes.
Bobby Seale
young AA radical who broke away from traditional nonviolent..
- AA political activist,
- founder, along with Huey Newton
- national chairman of the Black Panther Party.
- Young AA radical who broke away from the traditionally nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant black empowerment
Angela Davis
Critique American prison system and prison abolitionist views…
- African-American civil rights activist and feminist.
- Known for her critique of the American prison system and prison abolitionist views.
American Independent Party
Ran on a segregationist “law and order” platform…
- Far-right political party
- 1967
- George Wallace as presidential candidate.
- Ran on a segregationist “law and order” platform.
- Won 5 Southern states, 46 electoral votes, and 13.5 percent of the popular vote.
Richard Nixon
Promised “peace with honor” in Vietnam and…
- Republican president
- elected in 1968
- re-elected in 1972.
- Promised “peace with honor” in Vietnam and would attack crime and civil unrest.
Election of 1968
Eugene McCarthy challenges LBJ for the Democratic nomination on a platform of ending the war. LBJ decides not to run for re-election. Robert Kennedy announces he will also run for the Democratic nomination but is assassinated in June 1968. After the disastrous and violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago in the summer of 1968, VP Hubert Humphrey beats out Eugene McCarthy. Republicans nominate Richard Nixon.
Nixon wins narrow electoral victory on a platform of “peace with honor” and law and order.
affirmative action
Policies established in the 1960s and 1970s by governments, businesses, universities, and other institutions to overcome the effects of past discrimination against specific groups such as racial and ethnic minorities and women. Measures to ensure equal opportunity include setting goals for the admission, hiring, and promotion of minorities; considering minority status when allocating resources; and actively encouraging victims of past discrimination to apply for jobs and other resources.
Bakke v University of California
1978 Supreme Court ruling that limited affirmative action by rejecting a quota system.
