Unit 12—Chapters 28 – 29
The Times They are a Changin
(1945 – 1974)
CSS 11.7, 11.8, 11.10, 11.11
Brown v. Board
Scottsboro case, 1931
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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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Jackie Robinson, 1947
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Army Desegregation, 1948
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Emmet Till, 1955
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Little Rock Nine, 1957
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The only weapon we have in our hands is the
weapon of protest…We will be guided by the
highest principles of law and order. In spite of
our mistreatment, we must not become bitter
and end up hating our white brothers.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
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Civil Rights Act, 1957
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Congress of Racial Equality, 1942
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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SCLC, 1957
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Freedom Riders, 1960-1961
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March on Washington
SNCC, 1960
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“If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch
in a restaurant open to the public; if he cannot send his
children to the best public school available; if he cannot
vote for the public officials who represent him; if in short,
he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want,
then who among us would be content to have the color of
his skin changed and stand in his place?”
--JFK, Civil Rights Address, 1963
Birmingham, AL, 1963
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Sit-In Movement, 1960
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March on Washington, 1963
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Ole Miss, 1962
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Civil Rights Martyrs, 1963
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Medgar Evers—shot in his driveway
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael
Schwerner—civil rights workers killed in Mississippi
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Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson
Addie Mae Collins killed in church bombing
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act, 1964
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Selma, AL, 1965
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Voting Rights Act, 1965
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Watts Riots, 1965
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George Wallace
• “Segregation now! Segregation
tomorrow! Segregation forever!”
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Civil Rights Act, 1968
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Civil Rights Martyrs, 1968
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Black Nationalism
Malcolm X
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“We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be
respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human
being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend
to bring into existence by any means necessary.”
--Malcolm X, 1964
Black Power, 1966
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Black Panthers, 1966
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"Black is Beautiful“
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Warren Court
Earl Warren (1954-1969)
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Mapp v. Ohio, 1961
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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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Baker v. Carr, 1962
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Engel v. Vitale, 1962
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Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964
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Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
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Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
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1964
Johnson Administration
1963-1969
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Daisy ad
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D
Lyndon B. Johnson
43,129,566
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R
Barry Goldwater
27,178,188
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Economic Opportunity Act, 1965
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Election of 1964
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Head Start—
Upward Bound—
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Job Corps—
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FAFSA—
“Extremism in the pursuit of liberty
is no vice”
Great Society
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War on Poverty
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VISTA, 1964
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Medicare/Medicaid, 1965
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Chicano Movement
Immigration and Nationality Act, 1965
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Mendez v. Westminster, 1947
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Jones Act, 1917
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Operation Wetback, 1954
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Chicano Movement, 1960s
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United Farm Workers, 1975
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Cesar Chavez
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Feminism
Betty Friedan
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glass ceiling
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Termination policy, 1953
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Title IX, 1964
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NOW, 1966
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American Indian Movement (AIM)
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Gloria Steinem
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Stonewall Riot, 1969
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Vietnam (JFK and LBJ)
French Indo-China, 1954
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 1964
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Geneva Convention, 1954
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Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965
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Flexible Response
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General William Westmoreland
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Counterculture
Counterculture
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America, Love it or Leave it.
Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids have you kill today?
Eighteen today, dead tomorrow
Make love, not war
Hell no, we won’t go
Trust no one over thirty!
Woodstock, 1969
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SDS, 1960
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Free Speech Movement, 1964
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War, 1967
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Sen. William Fullbright
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Dr. Timothy Leary
• “tune in, turn on, and drop out” (LSD)
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Kent State, 1970
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President Nixon “...when dissent turns
to violence it invites tragedy”
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Vietnam (LBJ)
credibility gap
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Agent Orange
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My Lai massacre, 1968
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Tet Offensive, 1968
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Pueblo Incident, 1968
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Vietnam (Nixon)
Nixon Doctrine, 1969
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Cambodian Bombings, 1969
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Pentagon Papers, 1972
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War Powers Act, 1973
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Paris Peace Conference, 1973
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Vietnam War (Aug. 1964-May7, 1975)
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1968
Nixon Administration
1969-1973
1968 Democratic Convention
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Election 1968
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Richard Nixon
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R
Richard M. Nixon
31,785,480
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Hubert Humphrey
31,275,166
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George Wallace
9,906,473
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Spiro Agnew
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Burger Court
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Nixon Administration
1973-1974
1972
Détente, 1972
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SALT I, 1972
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Ping Pong Diplomacy, 1972
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R
Richard M. Nixon
47,169,911
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George S. McGovern
29,170,383
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Shuttle Diplomacy,
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Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 1972
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Watergate
Watergate
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Saturday Night Massacre, 1973
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Nixon Tapes, 1974
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Democratic National Convention, 1972
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CREEP
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United States v. Nixon, 1974
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Senate Select Committee on Presidential
Activities, 1973
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Impeachment, 1974
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John Dean –
Alexander Butterfield –
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