Civil Rights Vocab

Peace Corps

Kennedy's program to help developing nations and spread democracy.

-Nicer way to spread democracy

-Help third-world nations with College Students

Great Society

LBJ's war on poverty that created the modern welfare system.

-Lyndon says poverty is bad, and he believes that poverty fuels inequality

Volunteers in Service to America

VISTA

Domestic Peace Corps (Part of the Great Society)

Medicare

Government-sponsored health insurance for the elderly, part of the Great Society. The most expensive program in American History

Medicaid

Government-sponsored health insurance for the poor (Part of the Great Society)

Housing and Urban Development

HUD

Provides low incoming housing for people in inner cities also known as "the projects"

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

SCLC; Civil Rights group led by MLK, organized through African-American churches

Student non-violent Coordinating Committee

SNCC; a Civil rights group organized through colleges, later breaks apart and becomes the Black Panthers

Congress On Racial Equality

CORE:

Civil rights group that started the Freedom Rides

Freedom Rides

Bus rides throughout the South in the summer of 61, attacked by the police in the South, and eventually protected by federal marshalls.

March on Washington

In August of 63, Civil rights rally led by MLK where he made his "I have a Dream" speech.

-JFK begged him not to do it, MLK says he will, and JFK will support him

Freedom Summer

Summer of 64 when three Civil Rights workers were murdered in Mississippi, the Federal government had to investigate.

Civil Rights Act o'1964 / Voting Rights act o'1965

The two most significant civil rights laws in American History; CRA outlaws discrimination and segregation in public places; VR made it illegal to prevent someone from voting

Malcolm X

Militant civil rights leader of the 60s, led the Nation of Islam

Muhammad Ali

Most famous boxer of all time, becomes a Civil Rights leader

Selma, Alabama

Site of three Civil Rights marches, the first two broken up by police, the third succeeded

National Organization of Women

NOW;

Civil Rights group committed to second and now third wave feminism

1st movement - Suffrage, 2nd -Abortion/pay, 3rd -LGBTQ+

Gideon v. Wainwright

1963 supreme court case that said the state must appoint you an attorney if you cannot afford one.

Miranda v. Arizona

1966 Supreme Court case that said that the police must read you your rights at the time of the arrest.

Griswold v Connecticut

1965 Supreme Court Case that says couples have a right to privacy, and therefore states cannot ban contraception

Roe v. Wade

1972 Supreme Court case that says since people have a right to privacy, states may not ban abortion prior to the third trimester; Overturned in 2022 by Dobbs

Earl Warren

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from the 50s to 1970; Greatly expanded individual rights while on the court.

Judicial Activism

When judges make laws from the bench

Affirmative Action

System of hiring and college admissions that favors minority candidates over equally or slightly more qualified white candidates.

Uniniversity o' California v. Bakke

1978 Supreme Court case that outlawed racial quotas and said Affirmative action is legal

Conservative

Political Ideology that favors a smaller federal government and traditional civil and social rights.

Liberal

A political ideology that believes in a stronger federal government and modern social values.

Barry Goldwater

1964 presidential candidate, lost to LBJ; First conservative candidate in a generation