Civil RIghts Movement

Module 16 - Test on Friday May 16

New Frontier

a program of economic and social reform.

Great Society

A collection of domestic programs initiated by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s aimed at improving American society, particularly in the areas of poverty, education, and civil rights.

Peace Corps

A volunteer program established in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship through global service.

VISTA

an anti-poverty program designed to provide needed resources to nonprofit organizations and public agencies to increase their capacity to lift communities out of poverty.

SCLC

Southern christian leadership committee, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

CORE

Congress of racial equality, James Farmer

SNCC

Student no-violent coordinating committee, Stokely Charmicael

Black Panthers

the era’s most influential militant black power organization.

James Meredith

The first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi.

Stokely Carmichael

West-Indian-born civil rights activist, leader of Black nationalisim in the United States in the 1960s and originator of its rally slogan, “Black Power.”

Freedom riders

A series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961.

Freedom summer

A 1964 campaign by civil rights activists to register African American voters in Mississippi and raise awareness about racial discrimination.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

segregation on the grounds of race, religion or national origin was banned at all places of public accommodation, including courthouses, parks, restaurants, theaters, sports arenas and hotels. No longer could blacks and other minorities be denied service simply based on the color of their skin.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the non-white population had not registered to vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1968

The Fair housing Act

Kerner Commission

To examine the causes of the racial unrest in Detroit, Newark, and other American cities.

Caesar Chavez

Prominent American labor leader and civil rights activists who fought for better working conditions and wages for migrant farmworkers in the United States.

Betty Friedan

Journalist, activists, and co-founder of the National Organization for Woman.

Stonewall Riot

A series of spontaneous protests by LGBTQ+ individuals against a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, on June 28, 1969.

AIM

The American Indian Movement

NOW

American activists organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women.

ERA

Was initially proposed in Congress in 1923 in an effort to secure full equality for women. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.

Title IX

prohibits sex discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.

Rachel Carson- Silent Spring

A pivotal work that sparked the modern environment movement by exposing the environmental and health risks of pesticides, particularly DDT, and calling for a more responsible approach to pest control.

Ralph Nader- Unsafe at any Speed

Refers to two important books and a figure who profoundly impacted consumers rights, safety regulations, and environmental awareness.