TERMS/PEOPLE/EVENTS TO KNOW Flashcards

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W.E.B. Du Bois “Returning Soldiers”

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African-Americans must continue fighting for democracy and equality after returning home from war

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Great Migration

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  • African-Americans migrate from south to north to escape unemployment, discrimination and poverty
  • whites resist, race riots bcuz no jobs
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3
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“New Negro” Movement

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  • generation after Emancipation

- racial pride

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4
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Marcus Garvey/UNIA

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  • universal negro improvement association
  • economic empowerment
  • black nationalism
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5
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Shut the Door

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anglo-saxon superiority vs. we’re all immigrants asshole

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6
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Committee on Public Information

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  • George Creel
  • masculinity, chivalry, patriotism
  • propaganda for war effort
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7
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National Origins Act

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-only allows 2% of the number of immigrants from each country

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8
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18th Amendement

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prohibition

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9
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19th Amendement

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women’s suffrage

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10
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Hooverville

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shanty towns

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New Deal: relief, recovery, reform

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  • relief: immediate, halt economic decline (Bank Holiday)
  • recovery: temporary, restart flow of consumer demand (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
  • reform: permanent, avoid future disasters (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp)
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Democratic Coalition

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  • white southerners
  • farmers
  • industrial workers
  • african-americans
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A. Philip Randolph

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  • 1941 march on washington for jobs and freedom

- four freedoms/jim crow

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14
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Executive Order 8802

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-outlaw discriminatory hiring in defense plants but army segregated

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15
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Executive Order 9066

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remove Japanese from west coast, internment camps

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16
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Civil Rights Movement

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  • grassroots
  • emmett till
  • Political Women’s Council
  • Bus boycotts
  • SCLC
  • SNCC
  • sit ins
  • 1961 Freedom Rides
  • 1963 march on washington mlk
  • 1964 civil rights act
  • 1965 SCLC march (bloody sunday)
  • 1965 voting rights act
17
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SCLC

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  • southern christian leadership conference
  • mlk
  • nonviolent mass movement
18
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SNCC

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*Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

19
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1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

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  • MLK

* inspired by 1941 March/A. Philip Randolph

20
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MFDP

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  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

* Fannie Lou Hamer

21
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Fannie Lou Hamer

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  • testified for MFDP

* arrested and beaten in jail, sexual assault

22
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Voting Rights Act 1965

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  • no literacy test
  • empower federal registrars to enroll voters
  • 9 states receive pre-clearance from Washington by changing voting laws
  • Reversed in Shelby vs. Holder
23
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Johnson’s Great Society

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1964

  • liberty, racial justice, poverty
  • war on poverty
24
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“time to break the silence” mlk

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  • 1967
  • vietnam war hurting war on poverty
  • manipulation of the poor
25
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Stokely Carmichael “what we want”

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  • 1966
  • political power
  • integration: assimilation
  • civil rights no addressing poverty
26
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1965 Watts Riots

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*unemployment, education, police brutality

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Kerner Report 1968

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  • segregation and poverty
  • housing discrimination
  • racial ghettos
28
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MLK Poor Ppl’s March on D.C.

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  • painted as communist bcuz redistribution of wealth

* interracial poor (bacon & shay’s rebellions)

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Malcolm X

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  • black nationalism

* like Marcus Garvey

30
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Black Panther Party

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  • empowerment

* police brutality

31
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Brown Berets

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Chicanos

32
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American Indian Movement

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*occupy Alcatraz island

33
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Betty Friedan

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problem that has no name

feminist mystique

34
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Silent Majority

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white middle class conservatives

35
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Title IX

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no discrimination based on sex, etc

36
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1973 Roe vs. Wade

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abortion rights

37
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Bob Dole

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  • affirmative action unfair

* color blind society

38
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7 myths about affirmative action by Lee C. Bollinger

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  1. race significant
  2. diversity
  3. diversity helps
  4. college applicants valued for contributions
  5. gap not too big
  6. diversity/no other way/color blind stupid
  7. not unfair to whites, unequal funding for black schools
39
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Phyllis Schlafly

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  • women privileged
  • family values, babies
  • christian chivalry