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Modern America – Key terms and events

This overview encapsulates pivotal events and key figures in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1945 to 1968. It highlights significant cases such as Brown v. Board of Education and the activism led by figures like Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King Jr. The narrative covers crucial milestones including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Selma Campaign, and the impact of the Freedom Riders. Additionally, it touches upon the emergence of the Black Power movement, the push for feminist rights, and the broader socio-political landscape, including civil rights legislation and environmental movements.

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Modern America – Key terms and events

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  1. Modern America – Key terms and events

  2. Civil Rights 1945- 1963 • Jackie Robinson

  3. NAACP & Thurgood Marshall

  4. Morgan v. VA & Sweat v. Painter

  5. Brown v. BOE of Topeka & Brown II

  6. Little Rock 9 & Orval Faubus

  7. Rosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  8. SCLC

  9. SNCC

  10. Freedom Riders

  11. James Meredith

  12. MLKs Letter from a Birmingham Jail

  13. March on Washington

  14. Civil Rights & the “Black Power” Movement • CRA of 1964

  15. Freedom Summer

  16. Fannie Lou Hamer

  17. Selma Campaign

  18. VRA of 1965

  19. de facto v de jure segregation

  20. urban riots Chicago, Detroit, Harlem, Watts

  21. Malcolm X  Nation of Islam

  22. Stokley Carmichaels “BLACK POWER”

  23. Huey Newton & Bobby Seale  Black Panthers

  24. CRA of 1968

  25. George Wallace

  26. Affirmative action

  27. Feminist Movement • Feminine Mystique- Betty Friedan

  28. Feminism

  29. NOW

  30. Gloria Steinem

  31. Roe v. Wade

  32. Equal Rights Amendment

  33. Glass ceiling

  34. Kennedy and the New Frontier • Peace Corps

  35. Alliance for Progress

  36. Bay of Pigs

  37. Berlin Wall

  38. Cuban Missile Crisis

  39. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  40. Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Great Society • Warren Commission

  41. War on Poverty

  42. Barry Goldwater

  43. Medicare & Medicaid

  44. Equal Employment Oppty Commission

  45. 24th Amendment

  46. VRA of 1965

  47. Green Power Movement 1962- 1980 • Ralph Nader

  48. Rachel Carson

  49. Three Mile Island

  50. Environmental Protection Agency

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