Yellow-9 Flashcards
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Factors prompting this law included the “I Have A Dream” speech, death/ assassination of JFK, news reports of civil rights violations; this law ended all public segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlawed the use of literacy tests that prevented African Americans from voting
Warren Court
Supreme Court under chief justice Earl Warren that became famous for landmark decisions that strengthened individual rights
Miranda v. Arizona
Protected rights of arrested individuals
Great Society
LBJ’s domestic programs that tried to raise American standard of living and greater opportunities regardless of background
1968
Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and JFK; violence at Democratic Convention; Tet Offensive
SCLC
Founded by Martin Luther King
SNCC
Founded by college students and was originally nonviolent- freedom riders/sit-ins at lunch counters
NOW
Had its origins in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the early 1960s’- women’s rights group
United Farm Workers Movement
Latino migrant worker rights- founded by Cesar Chavez
Silent Spring
Led to the Water Quality act of 1965
nomination of Barry Goldwater
Sign of rising power of America’s conservative movement (republican movement)
New Federalism
Nixon’s program to give more power to state governments
Roe v. Wade
Abortion rights
Regents of University of California v. Bakke (Bakke decision)
Ruled race can be used when considering application to colleges, but racial quotas cannot be used- upheld affirmative action
