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Student Nonviolent Codinating Committee (SNCC)
Advised by Ella baker, this was an interracial organization of young people that wanted to get young African Americans active in the Civil rights movement and shift focus from church leadership -
The Lunch Counter Sit-ins
4 Black men sat in an eatting facility and refused to give up their seat until they were served, later others joined and waves of people continued as the blacks kept getting arrested. Blacks filled the jail cells. -
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1960-1969 History Events
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Alliance for Progress
United States gave $20 billion over 10 years to Latin American, to help rebuild stble Democratic LA nations. -
Mapp v. Ohio
Dolly mapp had her home searched for secret bombs but they found pornography and was convicted. Now police must have SPECIFIC warrents to make an arrest; can't use evidence gained through illegal searches -
Freedom Rides
Mixed race groups of non-violent volunteers went on bus trips to Dixie to test the Supreme Courts bans on segregation in interstate travel Some stops had groups of angry Southerners and ended up setting a bus on fire (no one got hurt) -
Berlin Crisis
Khrushchev demanded treaty making the divisions of West and East Germany permanent. He wanted to stop East Germans of escaping. Kennedy doesn't want that, he makes a speech that Soviets want Belin. Khrushchev responds by building the Berlin Wall around West Berlin a.k.a Iron Curtain -
Peace Corps
Kennedy sent volunteers to help develop nations and raise standard of living in poor areas of the world. (705 original volunteers in 14 countires, TODAY 6,500 volunteers in 84 countires) -
Integration of Ole Miss
James Meredith applied to "Ole MIss" didnt get accepted, He then sent letters to the Justice apartments and NAACP later Ole miss let him in and Kennedy sent up fenderal marshalls to protect him and he was the first black man to graduate from an all white school -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U-2 Spy planes get pictures of Cuban's missiles and Kennedy has to find a way to get the missles out of Cuban because if they get set off they can hit the United States. Set up a blockade (Quartine). Eventually they come to an agreement and the missiles get taken out of Cuba. -
The March on Washington
Wanted to end segregation and get bill passed and MLK delievers his "I Have A Dream" speech to an interratioal crowd of 200,000 people. Very peaceful and no violence happend and the movement works and Johnson got the bill passed. -
16th Street Bombing
!6th street chruch was a popular meeting spot for Civil rights meetings. The KKK bombed the church and killed 4 little girls and two other youth group members. The blacks did not retalliate -
Warren Commission
Created by LBJ to investigate JFK Assassination -
24th Amendment
abolishes the poll tax, which originally had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote. -
The Great Society
A series of major legismative initiatives that described LBJ's goals. He wanted to keep Kennedy;s civil rights and Tax cut bills in. His program included majorpoverty relief, education aid, healthcare, voting rights, conservative and beautification projects, urban renewal, and economic development in depressed areas. -
The Birmingham Confrontation
MLK led this demonstration, Kids let out of school to protest the segregation they filled up the jail cells. the police moved in and beat the protesters and used a fire hose on them. this got president kennedys attention and was on live TV -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Banned legal discrimination and segregation of African Americans -
Freedom Summer
Wanted to get voting rights to the African Americans. SNCC announced statewide the voting rights effort, more people joined the protest. Taught people how to take the tests (school use). # men murdered one black and two white and they had been working to register black voters in Mississippi, and, had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed this resolution that gave President Johnson complete control of the United States and on Vietnam without an offical declaration of war from Congress. Whatever Johnson said must have been done. -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X had be assassinated by 3 members of the Islam nation -
Selma March
Blacks begin a march to Montgomery in support of voting rights but are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Fifty marchers are hospitalized after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
President Johnson passed this act banned racial discrimination in voting -
Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda arrested for rape and kidnapping and he confessed and convicted. but now suspects must be infomred of their rights upon arrest -
Black Panthers Formed
A groupd of Militants formed this new political party. led by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. Panthers wanted their own community (outraged people) -
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Let women be equal to men and equal to all society. Let women have fair pay, equal job opportuinty, stop false media images, and balance in marriages. -
Tet Offensive
A surprise attack from North Vietnam on South vietnam. North vietnamise attacked every major city in South Vietnam. -
My Lai Massacre
US soliders were ordered to get a high body count, they killed 567 vietnamise civilians, they raped women and murdered babies. KIlled people because they didn't know who was the enemy or not. -
Johnson Resigns
Johsnons populatiry goes down drastically because of the Vietnam war and he wants to avoid all the ugly protestors. Johnson resigns from presidency -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Many americans were upset with his assassination, With his assassination it sparked violence and ended faith in nonviolence change -
Robert Kennedys Assassination
With his assassination all hopes ended for having a inspirational leader to Americans. -
Vietnamization
President Nixon decided to send soliders home from Vietman and took them out of South Vietnam
