Chapter 25-Give Me Liberty!

The Civil Rights movement challenged the US to rethink what ______ really means.

This group was known for it's sit-ins (i.e.: Woolworth's) THE LEADING FORCE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE. Importance-how many joined nonviolent movement.

-Group that was devoted to replacing segregation with social justice. -Wanted to empower blacks to take control of decisions affecting their lives.

-Leader of the SNCC

-Launched by CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), done to test compliance with court orders banning segregation on buses/trains. -Met with violence - Lead to Interstate Commerce Commission ordering desegregation.

-The 'Citadel of Segregation'. -Children sent into streets by MLK. Met with violence. -HIGH POINT OF PROTEST. TV coverage-wave of revulsion worldwide. -Kennedy HAD to support cause. Rhetoric freedom v. Reality racism. People began picking sides on issue.

-Police chief who unleashed kid forces against thousands of young marchers sent out by MLK in Birmingham

-organized the March on Washington -Black Unionist

-HIGH POINT OF NONVIOLENT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. -Largest public demonstration in the nation at that time -"I have a dream" speech.

-Demanded Jobs through public works program -Demanded increase in minimum wage -Demanded a law against discrimination in employment

-Female activists who played crucial roles in civil rights organizing

Civil rights activists had more hope for justice from this group than from local governments or civic institutions.

This act prohibited racial discrim. in jobs, hospitals, schools, rest., hotels, & theaters. Prohibited discrim. based on sex but did NOT address vote in South. "Delivered South to the Republican Party"-LBJ

The most passionate president with regard to the Civil Rights Movement was ______

-Strategic move that failed. -Kennedy allowed the CIA to invaded Cuba. -Castro got closer and closer to Soviets after this.

-In his inaugural address of '61, Kennedy urged Americans to move beyond self centered ______________ -alleviate poverty and counteract appeal of communism

-One of the central problems with Pres. Kennedy was that he viewed the Vietnam war through the lense of ____ ____

-Soviets had missiles aimed at US from Cuba. -Khrushchev agreed to withdraw them. -Kennedy agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey.

Relations with this country was a perfect example of how little the two superpowers cared about people in between them. Show why others didn't want to align with either.

-LBJs proposal for govt action to promote general welfare. -Expanded powers of federal govt. -RESPONSE TO PROSPERITY NOT DEPRESSION. Address voting rights, POVERTY, disease, education, immigration & environment. -Viet.War killed programs/his presidency.

-White college students, children of affluence, redefining freedom. -Spoke of loneliness, isolation, alienation, & powerlessness. -Wanted authenticity (cannot buy). INSPIRED BY BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT.

-This was a combination of the most excluded members of society and the children of the middle class.

-helped fund conservative students emerging them as a force in politics

-This group was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left.

-"We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation (in which) the individual shares in those social decisions determining the quality & direction of his life." -For SDS-Freedom mean participatory democracy.

-Voter registration drive launched in Mississippi. Northern white students joined. -Violent! -Led to MFDP taking seats at Democratic National Convention.

-Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. -Went to all white Democratic National Convention to take seats.

-A scene of violence against non-violent demonstrators on television. -LBJ asked Congress to enact what became Voting Rights Act of 1965. -Most powerful federal endorsement of movement. "We Shall Overcome."

-Outlawed the poll tax which had prevented poor blacks (and some whites) from voting in the south.

-Mid 60's the freedom movement begins to change and _______ issues rose to the forefront of civil rights agenda

Violence in Ghettos and urban uprisings of mid 60's attributed to _______ & ________. Blamed on white racism. No clear proposals for change by LBJ admin.

-MLK demanded end to discrim. by employers/unions, access to mortgages, integrated public housing, low income housing. -Movement failed-whites very opposed.

1) Clear objectives-Far reaching accomplishments 2) Political fragmentation-No clear objectives / few victories

-This movement was akin to decolonization / non-align/ 3rd World movements.

-Had clashing ideologies with MLK. -Influenced by radical groups/global trends. -Black Muslim convert. -Criticized integration & non-violence. -No cohesive ideologies left behind. -Intellectual father of "Black Power".

-Slogan that got national attention. -Reflected radicalization of young activists. -Sparked racial self assertion. -Many militant groups came and went.

-Most prominent/militant of black power groups. -Stood for self defense against police brutality. -Dressed in military garb, did a lot of good things. They didn't last.

-This president saw Vietnam as a test to controlling communism.

-Communist leader of North Vietnam/Vietcong -Used guerrilla warfare to confuse American soldiers.

-Agreements split Vietnam into 2 zones, Communist north and a southern zone governed by the State of Vietnam. (Present-Soviets, US, France, UK, and China)

-First president of South Vietnam. -Was US friendly. -US later approved a military coup that lead to his death.

-Authorized president to take all necessary measures to repel armed attack. (This was in response to what turned out to be a false attack by the North Vietnamese.)

-This was responsible for transforming protests of the 60's into a full-fledged generational rebellion.

-350 civilians killed as a result of bad military info given to troops. -Exemplified levels that the war had reached.

-This year is when the Vietnam war got extremely brutal. It marks the start of the anti-war movement and is considered the CLIMAX OF THE 60'S. -It was a year of worldwide upheaval.

-The organizing theme that united people in the late 60's. -Did not have any central leadership-weakness.

-25,000 SDS members and other opponents assembled here to protest the war in Vietnam. -First major antiwar demonstration.

-New Left first focussed on participatory democracy. -Later it expanded to include another kind of freedom, which rejected the respectable norms. "Liberation"

The Feminine Mystique -"The problem that has no name" -Educated woman trapped in world where marriage and motherhood were goals. -Suburban nightmare.

-Passed in 1963. -Barred sex discrimination in pay among holders of the same job.

-Demanded women get equal opportunities in jobs, education, and political participation and attacked the 'false image of women' spread by mass media.

-Greatest surprise of all in crazy decade, emergence of this movement.

-Police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village. Gays fought back. -Militant movement born.

-Leader of Latino activism-linked to labor struggles. -Lead nonviolent protests, boycott of CA grapes. -Member of United Farm Workers. Natl. attention for low wages and oppression of migrant workers. Won his struggle.

-Represents a growing sense of pan-indian identity. -A term used in American Indian Movements which demanded self-government & restoration of resources.

-This was a direct result of all of the craziness of the 60's and a 'cry' for more law and order.

-Well organized surprise attacks in South Vietnam (by Vietcong). -Intensity of fighting on TV undermined public confidence in LBJ.

-Lead to the greatest outbreak of urban violence in the nation's history. -DC had to be occupied by soldiers before order was restored.

-Students in this country were echoing the American demands for educational reform and personal liberation. -Workers joined in and effectively paralyzed this country.

-In this country, leaders wanting reform came to power-promised 'socialism w/a human face'. -Failed-ousted by Soviets. -MARKS START OF SOVIET EMPIRE CRUMBLING.

-In this city, 500 students who were demonstrating for democracy were shot on eve of Olympic Games.

* Transformation of Amer. life in ways unimaginable * New understandings of freedom * Opened new doors for racial minorities * Left urban poverty unresolved * Changed expectations of our national leaders * Period will be blamed for every social ill in the 70's