Brown vs. Board of Education Desegregation of Schools

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• Brown vs. Board of Education Desegregation of
  Schools
• Overturned
• Plessy vs. Ferguson Separate but Equal
• Mnemonic Devices?

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• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Abolishes Voting discrimination
• Establishes equal opportunity for Govt
• EEOC
• Judicial Review
• Activist Judges
• Found a law to be unconstitutional
• Civil Disobedience
• Henry Thoreau dont cooperate with unjust laws

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• Barrier to voting
• http//www.crmvet.org/info/litques.htm
• Recite the opening of Chaucers Cantebury tales.
  (can you do it?)

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Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X

• Goals peaceful co-existance and recognition of
  humanity
• Methods non-violence i.e. sit-ins, fill the
  jails, boycotts
• Follower of Christ

• Goals Recognition of humanity and a distinctly
  black culture
• Methods lecture, debate, violence
• Nation of Islam
• later renounced violence

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Great Society

• President Lyndon Johnsons Social Reform
• Goals think John Edwardsno one in poverty,
  everyones basic needs are met, reacial and
  economic equality
• Welfare! Medicaid! Entitlement programs!

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Vietnam

• U. S. involvement
• Bailed out the French
• Escalated as we tried to stop the spread of
  communism
• Expansion of war
• Started as advisors to South Vietnam
• Needed more troops to protect our advisors and
  provide security
• Expanded to campbodia to go after supply lines

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Vietnam

• Protest movement
• Fueled by hippies and drugs
• Anti-war, pro-peace, pro-love, anti-capitalism,
  anti-establishmentbig mess of causes
• Counterculture - everything counter to
  mainstream
• Military strategy
• Forward Operating Bases
• Patrols
• Draw the enemy out
• Helicopters

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Watergate

• http//streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/ass
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• Black People to cities
• White People to suburbs
• Mexicans to southwest (migrant workers)

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• Modern conservatism
• RXN to 70s drug use
• Family values
• Breakup of the Soviet Union
• USSR loosened and opened
• Then fell apart
• NAFTANorth American Free Trade Agreement
• Good for American Consumers
• Bad for American Workers
• Patriot Act
• More power to federal govt in exchange for
  security