11.10 Social & Economic Change/ Domestic Issues

Civil Rights Movement Leaders

Martin Luther King Jr. - Led nonviolent resistance, SCLC

Stokely Carmicheal - Black power movement

Fannie Lou Hamer - Voting Rights activist

Malcom X - Black Nationalism advocate

Major Civil Rights Organizations

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

SNCC (Student Non - Violent Coordinating Committee)

Each focused on achieving civil rights through different strategies and approaches

Key Civil Rights Events

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Little Rock Nine federal intervention

Birmingham protests

March on Washington

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Woman’s Movement Milestones

The Feminine Mystique (1963)

National Organization for Woman (Now)

Equal Pay Act

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Roe v. Wade

Other Social Movements

Native Americans - American Indian Movement (AIM)

Brown Power - United Farm Workers, Cesar Chavez

Gay Rights - Stonewall Inn riots (1969)

Environmental - Silent Spring (1962), EPA (1970)

Disability Rights - Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)

Right of the Accused

Supreme Court Cases: Mapp v. Ohio (1961), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Immigration Reform

Immigration Act of 1965

Immigration Act of 1986

Ongoing immigration reform debates

Student Rights Cases

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Tinker v. Des Moines School District (1969)

New Jersey v. TLO (1985)

Economic Policies

Compare/Contrast:

Johnson’s Great Society - expanded federal government role

Reagan’s “Reaganomics” - reduced federal government role

Modern Economic Challenges

Financial panic of 2008

Great Recession

Social Security Trust Fund debates

Medicare Trust Fund stability

Affordable Care Act implementation

Environmental Legislation

Clear Air Act (1970)

Clear Water Act (1972)

Endangered Species Act (1973)

Environmental Protection Agency creation (1970)

Reagan’s environmental policy changes