Studied by 18 people
Reapportionment
The way in which states draw up political districts based on changes in population.
due process
The law may not treat individuals unfairly, arbitrarily, or unreasonably and ,must follow procedure
Peace Corps
organization that sent american to support undeveloped nations with humanitarian deeds
VISTA
"Volunteers in Service of America" they were the domestic peace corps
Head start
a preschool program for children from low-income families that also provides healthcare, nutrition services, and social services
John F. Kennedy
1st catholic president who claimed US lagged behind soviets in missiles. assasinated.
richard nixon
republican who ran against kennedy ("democratic polices=inflation")
the new frontier
Kennedy's legislative agenda
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
kennedy's sister who founded special olympics
Earl Warren
Chief Justice who altered/expanded voting process and reinterpreted the first amendment
john glenn
1st American to orbit Earth
Apollo spacecraft
first spacecraft on the moon- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
neil armstrong
First man on the moon
fidel castro
Communist leader of Cuba who overthrew Fulgencio Batista
la brigada
CIA secretly trained and armed Cuban exiles
Lee Harvey Oswald
(accused of ) Assassinated JFK
Lyndon B. Johnson
took office after JFK was assasinated
Economic Opportunity Act
attacked inadequate public services, illiteracy, and unemployment
medicare
established health insurance for all senior citizens financed through social security.
Medicaid
provided health and medical assistance to low income families funded through FEDERAL aid
Separate but equal
racially segregated but ensuring equal opportunities to all races.
de facto segregation
segregated by custom and tradition
Turgood Marshall
NAACP's chief counsel + director of legal defense and education fund
linda brown
denied admission to her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas, because of her race
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, eliminate and encourage voters
freeedom riders
black and white volunteers (collegue students) that traveled to te south to draw attention to the buses for refusal to integrate.
Filibuster
occurs when a small group of senators take turns speaking and refuse to stop the debate and allow vote for bill
cloture
filibster stops if 60 senators vote for this
rasicm
prejudices and/or discrimination someone because of their race
Jackie Robinson
first African American to play in Major League Baseball
rosa parks
refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery and triggered the national civil rights movement
Plessy vs. Ferguson
"separate but equal" doctrine supreme court upheld the constitutionally of jim crow laws
Jim crow laws
Laws designed to enforce segregation of black and white people. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights
james farmer
civil rights leader who founded CORE
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality" used sit-in protests which integrated public places
brown vs. BOE
segregation in public schools is unconstitutional- (Linda Brown vs. Tobena school board)
Southern Manifesto
Opposition of Southern congressmen to Brown v. Board of Education decision
Martin Luther King Jr.
26 yr old pastor to lead civil rights movement
civil rights act of 1957
created civil rights division and investigated allegations
SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Robert Moses
began voter education project
fannie lou hammer
was SNCC organizer-arrested and beat for encouraging black people to vote
robert kennedy
head of justice department, help black people to vote
James Meredith
Black air force veteran applying to Mississippi
medgar evers
Director of the NAACP in Mississippi and a lawyer who defended accused Black people, he was murdered by a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gave the federal government a strong legal tool to prevent job discrimination; paved the way for equal employment opportunity
EEOC
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission monitors ban on job discrimination
Voting Rights Act of 1965
authorized by U.S. attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified votes
watts riot of 1965
$45 million in damage, 34 killed, 900 wounded
detroit riot of 1967
Between 1965-1968, 43 deaths, 1000 wounded, damage cost $250 million
Kerner Commision
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders who investigated the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s
Malcolm X
'Malcolm Little' became member of nation of Islam assassinated in 1965
nation of islam
they stressed black nationalism and self defense not violence
Black Panther Party
preached black power, nationalism and economic self efficiency
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