Study Guide For American History Chapter 21-23

The desegregation campaign was led largely by

What is the NAACP?

This person wrote a book, The Feminine Mystique, in which she addressed this “problem that has no name.”

Who is Betty Friedan?

King joined with ministers and civil rights leaders in 1957 to found this organization....  Its purpose was “to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship.”

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)?

The hippie era, sometimes known as...

What is the Age of Aquarius?

This man integrated the university of mississippi

Who is James Meredith?

The act eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters. It also stated that federal examiners could enroll voters who had been denied suffrage by local officials.

What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Segregation that exists by practice and custom.

What is de facto segregation?

Chávez and Dolores Huerta established the National Farm Workers Association. Four years later, this group merged with a Filipino agricultural union (also founded by Huerta) to form...

What is the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)?

What does eeoc stand for

What is Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 

In this case, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down segregation in schooling as an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection 

What is Brown vs board of education?

By the mid-sixties, this place in San Francisco was known as the hippie capital

What is Haight-Ashbury?

In April 1960, Baker helped students at Shaw University, an African-American university in Raleigh, North Carolina, to organize a national protest group, its name is pronounced “snick” for short.

What is the the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC?

Over 25,000 people marched on this town in 1965

What is Selma Alabama?

This was called the most segregated city in America

What is Selma Alabama?

The founders of this group declared, “to confront with concrete action the conditions which now prevent women from enjoying the equality of opportunity . . . which is their right as individual Americans and as human beings.”

What is NOW? national organization for women

This was a “call for black people to begin to define their own goals . . . [and] to lead their own organizations.”

What is black power?

This FBI Director issued a warning that “revolutionary terrorism” was a threat on campuses and in cities.

Who is J. Edgar Hoover?

This stressed the determination of Native Americans to “choose our own way of life.” it called for an end to the termination program in favor of new policies designed to create economic opportunities for Native Americans on their reservations.

What is the Declaration of Indian Purpose?

This would guarantee that both men and women would enjoy the same rights and protections under the law. It was, many supporters said, a matter of “simple justice.” 

What is the ERA, Equal Rights Amendment?

While some hailed the increasing permisiveness as liberating, others attacked it as a sign of ...

What is moral decay?

Many women ran into a “this”—an invisible, but very real, resistance to promoting women into top positions.

What is glass ceiling?

This growing conservative movement would propel this man into the White House—and set the nation on a more conservative course.

Who is Nixon?

These were the African American students who had volunteered to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School 

Who were the Little Rock 9?

In February 1960, African-American students from North Carolina’s Agricultural and Technical College staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at this   store in Greensboro.

What is Woolworth’s?

On August 28 1963 over 250,000 people took part in this in Washington DC

What is the march on washington?

Segregation by law

What is De jure segregation?

Many young Native Americans were dissatisfied with the slow pace of reform. Their discontent fueled the growth of this organization..  it began in 1968 largely as a self-defense group against police brutality, it soon branched out to include protecting the rights of large Native American populations in northern and western states.

What is the American Indian Movement or AIM?

This law gave the attorney general greater power over school desegregation. It also gave the federal government jurisdiction—or authority—over violations of African-American voting rights.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1957?

He was the first African-American Supreme Court justice 

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

This prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender. It gave all citizens the right to enter libraries, parks, washrooms, restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations. 

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

The black panthers were founded by who?

Who was Huey Newton and Bobby Seale ?

In 1972, AIM leader Russell Means organized this march in Washington, D.C., to protest the U.S. government’s treaty violations throughout history

What is “Trail of Broken Treaties” ?

Rosa parks act of defiance led to this

What is the Montgomery bus boycott?

This woman disobeyed bus seating rules before Rosa Parks.

Who is Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

To fortify the project, civil rights groups recruited college students and trained them in nonviolent resistance. Thousands of student volunteers—mostly white, about one-third female—went into Mississippi to help register voters. this project was called..

What is Freedom Summer?

Congress passed the most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, including this act,  which ended discrimination in housing.

What is the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

Texan José Angel Gutiérrez, sought to create an independent Latino political movement. In 1970, he established this group... . In the 1970s, this group ran Latino candidates in five states and won races for mayor, as well as other local positions on school boards and city councils.

What is La Raza Unida (The People United)?

Three significant events that took place around World War II that led to the development of the Civil Rights Movement were

1. The influx of African Americans into urban areas for industrial jobs during the war led to increased racial tensions and discrimination, prompting calls for civil rights.

2. African American soldiers fighting abroad for democracy and freedom questioned the racial inequality they faced at home, sparking a desire for change.

3. The role of African American women in the war effort highlighted their contributions to society, fueling demands for equal rights and opportunities.

That cause Malcolm X to change his philosophy but happened that caused Malcolm X change his philosophy and explain his slogan balance or bullets. 3-4 sentences

Malcolm X's philosophy underwent a transformation due to several factors, including disillusionment with the nonviolent approach of the civil rights movement, his pilgrimage to Mecca, and his evolving views on race and identity. His slogan "balance or bullets" encapsulated his belief in the need for either achieving racial equality through peaceful means or being prepared to defend oneself through any means necessary, including violence, to attain justice and freedom for African Americans.