Civil Rights Movement
I. Early Civil Rights Reforms
A. CORE-(Congress of Racial Equality-42)-#
-Sit ins-#
B. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas-(1954)#
C. The Little Rock Nine- (fall 1957)-#
D. Montgomery Bus Boycott-#
-Rosa Parks-#
E. Martin Luther King Jr.-#
F. Southern Christian Leadership Conference-#
G. Civil Rights Act of 1957-#
II. Civil Rights 1960-78
A. Woolworth Sit-Ins- in Richmond & Greensboro met with violence
B. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-(SNCC)-#
C. Freedom Rides-#
D. James Meredith-#
E. Demonstrations in Birmingham-#
-Bull Conner
-Letters from a Birmingham jail
-JFK-Announces Civil Rights legislation
F. March on Washington-8/63-#
G. Civil Right Act of 1964-#
H. 24th Amendment(1964)-outlawed the poll tax(federal not in state elections)
I. Selma March-(3/65)-#
J. Voting Rights Act of 1965-#
III. 1965-70 end of unity
A. Racism-#
B. Watts Riot-#
-Kerner Commission-#
C. Chicago Movement-#
-Richard Daley-#
D. Malcolm X –#
E. Black Power-#
F. Black Panthers-# (fall 66)
G. King Assassinated-(4/4/68)-#
Women’s Rights
I. Equal Pay Act-63-#
II. Betty Friedan and Feminism
A. The Feminine Mystique-#
B. Feminism –#
C. National Organization for Women (NOW) –#
III. Young Feminists
IV. Title IX-#
V. Equal Rights Amendment-1972-#
VI. Roe v. Wade (1973)-#
Counterculture (1960’s)
I. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)-#
II. Free Speech Movement-#
III. Teach-in-#
IV. Draft Resistance-conscientious objectors (opposed all war on moral grounds) deferments (allowed out of the draft) draft dodgers-opposed the VN war
V. Counterculture-#
-Hippies- #
-Communes-#
-Haight-Ashbury district-San Francisco-#
-Conformity-#
-Music-Bob Dylan, Woodstock, & Jimmy Hendrix
Mexican-Latino Americans & Immigrants
I. League of United Latin American Citizens-#
II. United Farm Workers-#
-Caesar Chavez & Dolores Huerta
III. La Raza Unida-#
-Bilingualism-#