brown vs. board of education = desegregation of schools overturned plessy vs. ferguson = separate...
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• Brown vs. Board of Education = Desegregation of Schools
Overturned
• Plessy vs. Ferguson = Separate but Equal
• Mnemonic Devices?
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• Civil Rights Act of 1964– Abolishes Voting discrimination– Establishes equal opportunity for Gov’t– EEOC
• Judicial Review– “Activist Judges”– Found a law “to be unconstitutional”
• Civil Disobedience– Henry Thoreau – don’t cooperate with unjust laws
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• Barrier to voting – http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.htm
Recite the opening of Chaucer’s Cantebury tales. (can you do it?)
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Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X
• Goals: peaceful co-existance and recognition of humanity
• Methods: non-violence i.e. sit-ins, fill the jails, boycotts
• Follower of Christ
• Goals: Recognition of humanity and a distinctly black culture
• Methods: lecture, debate, violence*
• Nation of Islam
*later renounced violence
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Great Society
• President Lyndon Johnson’s Social Reform
• Goals: think John Edwards—no one in poverty, everyone’s basic needs are met, reacial and economic equality
• Welfare! Medicaid! Entitlement programs!
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Vietnam
• U. S. involvement– Bailed out the French– Escalated as we tried to stop the spread of
communism
• Expansion of war– Started as advisors to South Vietnam– Needed more troops to protect our advisors and
provide security– Expanded to campbodia to go after supply lines
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Vietnam
• Protest movement– Fueled by hippies and drugs– Anti-war, pro-peace, pro-love, anti-capitalism, anti-
establishment—big mess of causes– Counterculture - everything counter to mainstream
• Military strategy– Forward Operating Bases– Patrols
• Draw the enemy out• Helicopters
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Watergate
• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=C2B66BBC-2ED4-471A-BDF0-38E460B1CBFC
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• Black People: to cities
• White People: to suburbs
• Mexicans: to southwest (migrant workers)
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• Modern conservatism– RXN to ’70’s drug use– Family values
• Breakup of the Soviet Union– USSR loosened and opened– Then fell apart
• NAFTA—North American Free Trade Agreement– Good for: American Consumers– Bad for: American Workers
• Patriot Act – More power to federal gov’t in exchange for security