Vocab Flashcards
Thurgood Marshall
The naacp attorneys who went on to become a Supreme Court justice.
Brown v. Board of education
In the early 1950 five school segregation cases from Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington DC came together under the title of Brown v. Board of education.
Little Rock nine
It allowed nine outstanding black students to attend central high school. These students became known as the Little Rock nine.
Rosa parks
Rosa parks boarded a bus and sat in the front row of the black passengers and when the bus was full the driver told parks to give her seat up.
Montgomery bus boycott
Thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses
Martin Luther King Jr.
A young baptist minister was a person who helped with segregation.
Sit in
A demonstration in which protesters sit down and refused to leave.
Coordinating committee
To continue the struggle for civil rights the leaders of the students protest formed the student nonviolent coordinating committee.
John F Kennedy
He won the election in 1960 for president and became the youngest person ever to be elected for president.
Freedom rides
Black and white bus riders traveled together to segregated bus stations in the south.
March on Washington
A massive demonstration for civil rights.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was quickly sworn in as president.
Civil rights act of 1964
The act banned segregation in public places it also outlawed discrimination in the workplace on the basis.
Voting rights act of 1965
Johnson signed into a law in August this law gave he federal government new powers to protect African Americans voting rights.
Great society
His program of domestic reform
Black power
Movement which called for African American independence
Malcolm X
Helped inspire the black power movement.
Cesar Chavez
Was one of many Hispanic American who worked to improve conditions.
United farm workers
This union was committed to the goal of better pay and working conditions for migrant farm workers
Betty Friedan
Described the dissatisfaction some women felt with their traditional roles of wife mother and homemaker
National organization for women
To fight for equal educational and career opportunities for women.
Shirley Chisholm
Was elected to represent a New York City district
Equal rights amendment
Would outlaw all discrimination based on sex
Phyllis schlafly
A conservative activist founded the group stop era
American Indian movement
Founded in 1968 to fight for native Americans rights
Disabled in action
To make people aware of challenges facing people with disabilities
Baby boom
A significant increase in the number of babies born.
Sun belt
Southern and western states that offered a warm climate year round and low tax rates.
Urban renewal
Program a plan to improve life in cities.
Beats
Young people known as beatniks or beats criticized society with unusual writing styles and rebellious behavior.
Yalta conference
The three leaders made important decisions about the future of European governments.
Nuremberg trials
In November 1945 the tribunal put high ranking Nazis on trial in the German city of Nuremberg in what became known as the Nuremberg trials.
United Nations
An organization dedicated to resolving international conflicts.
Cold War
The phrase Cold War came to be used to describe the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union
Containment
Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world.
Truman doctrine
This policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism became known as the Truman doctrine.
