Unit 7 History

Washington

Slow approach

Du Bois

Quick Approach

SCLC

advance the cause of civil rights and social justice through nonviolent means, MLK

SNCC

fast, students, nonviolence, sit ins

CORE

freedom Rides, switch from non violent

NAACP

Brown v. Board, Thurgood Marshall chief counsel and directer

March on Selma (1965)

The SCLC and MLK organized a “march for freedom” in which sparked a lot of activity. Marchers we unbeaten and the horrors were caught on camera which spread throughout the nation which offered Congress to proposed a new voting law

Voting Rights Act of 1965

marked a turning point in the civil rights movement because segregation was outlawed and new things were put in place to ensure black voting was safe and non-discriminatory like no literacy tests

Malcolm X

by any means necessary, self determination, self defense

Stokely Carmichael

call for “Black Power” was different from MLK’s tactics because it involved violence in terms of self defense. The Black Power movement also wanted racial distinctiveness to shine though compared to blending into the dominant culture.

Black Panthers

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1. Patrols of the police, free breakfast, liberation school/ youth institute, Medical clinic

Betty Friedan-

*The Feminine Mystique*

The Equal Rights Amendment

 guarantees equality for everyone regardless of sex, ends legal distinctions between men and woman→ divorce, property, employment, alice paul

AWOC

mainly filipino- larry itlong is leader

United Farm Workers-The UFW

Goals were better working conditions, collective bargaining, minimum wage

The Call for Unity

written by MLK in Jail advocated for peaceful protest to oppose unjust laws.

Kerner Commission

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concluded that the US is becoming segregated and that inner city problems were driven by racism. Whites were living in the suburbs and Blacks in the city.

Cointelpro

fbi counter BPP

MAYO

local education issues

Opposition of feminsim

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3. ed by phyllis schafly argued it takes away female specific rights

Marsha P. Johnson

Black Trans gay activist