Ch. 19.3-4 Civil Rights
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 landmark that required the desegregation of public education |
| Vietnam | foreign conflict in 1965 that reduced funding for Johnson's Great Society programs |
| SCLC | civil rights organization that was led by MLK; based in Black southern churches |
| passive resistance | method of protest used by MLK Jr. that is described as "meeting the forces of hate, with love" |
| SNCC | student based Civil Rights group that was known for their sit-ins and started in Greensboro, NC (acronym). |
| CORE | northern based civil rights group that was known for launching the desegregation campaign against the transportation system (acronym). |
| Freedom Riders | name given to the protest of transportation segregation whereby interstate bus rides were taken |
| James Meredith | Name of the first African American to be admitted to the University of Mississippi (Ole' Miss) |
| Washington, DC | The site of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in which almost a quarter of a million attended |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | 1964 act of Congress that prohibited discrimination in the workplace or segregation in public places |
| Freedom Summer | name given to the voting campaign in the summer of 1964 that helped African Americans register to vote, Chaney/Schwerner/Goodman |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | the violence during the voting campaign of both Bloody Sunday in Selma and Mississippi murders helped pass this legislation in 1965 |
| Malcolm X | renamed himself to signify the loss of his African heritage; converted to Nation of Islam in jail in the 50s, became Black Muslims' most dynamic street orator and recruiter |
| Nation of Islam | Name of the organization/religion that gave Malcolm X discipline and direction as a leader of the Black Power movement. |
| Black Panthers | Radical and armed Black Power group founded in LA |
| Kerner Commission | federal committee the blamed white society for race riots and creating two societies divided by race |
| Memphis | city in which Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated |
| James Earl Ray | Murdered MLK |
| Cesar Chavez | Leader of the United Farm Workers, led grape boycott |
| Chicano Movement | another name for the "Brown Power" movement |
| American Indian Movement | another name for the "Red Power" movement |
| generation gap | The cultural "gap" between the baby boomer and their children |
| Haight-Ashbury | site of an alternative society in California whereby the young dropped out of the mainstream to be closer to nature |
| Andy Warhol | pop artist known for his mocking of mass production |
| Betty Friedan | wrote the book the "Feminine Mystique" that rejected the traditional housewife values |
| NOW | organization for women founded in 1966 that championed woman's rights (acronym) |
| British Invasion | influx of bands and musicians from Britain during the 60's. Huge influence on the American music scene |
| I Have A Dream | speech given by MLK during the August 1965 March on Washington DC |
| Birmingham | City in which MLK was arrested and wrote his famous "Letter from ___________ Jail" |
| Selma | home to the Edmund Pettus Bridge and "Bloody Sunday" |
| Woodstock | 3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s |
| hippies | believed in anti-materalism, free use of drugs, they had a casual attitude toward sex and anti-conformity, (1960s) practiced free love and took drugs, flocked to San Francisco- low rent/interracial, smoked marijuana and took LSD, Protestors who influenced US involvement in Vietnam |
| LSD | a powerful hallucinogenic drug; also known as acid |
| Pop Art | art movement that emerged in the 1960s; took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art |
| Motown | small Detroit studio from which many Black artists of the period recorded |
| Berkley | Site of the 1965 protest on a California campus calling for a change in the conservative teachings |
| Albany Movement | considered by some to be a "failure" of the civil rights movement; lessons learned here influenced the campaign in Birmingham |
| Children's March | took place in Birmingham 1963, where children's nonviolent protest was met with firehoses and dogs. Images captured for TV. |
| X | stood in place for lost African heritage |
| Letter from a Birmingham Jail | written by MLK Jr. from prison; disappointed more Christians/moderate whites didn't speak out against racism |
| Bull Connor | chief of police of Birmingham, AL. His use of dogs/fire hoses against the peaceful marchers on TV brought national attention to the civil right struggle |
| Timothy Leary | former Harvard psychologist who experimented LSD and became an advocate of their use as a way to open and expand the mind |
| Ms. | magazine devoted to feminist issues; female title neutral to marital status |
| Bob Dylan | folk singer who claimed that the answers to society's problems were just, "blowin' in the wind." |
| Mountaintop Speech | MLK Jr's last speech before his assassination; said that he people would make it to the "promised land" |
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