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The Feminist Movement was based on women wanting equal rights. This movment was from 1848-1920.
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Cesar Chavez was a civil rights activist. He founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.
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Stokely Carmichael was a political activist. He led a civil rights group SNCC in the 1960's.
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The Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case. They established public schools for blacks and whites.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott began on December 5, 1955 and was a protest against racial segregation. This event ended on December 20, 1956
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The Little Rock Crisis was a group of African boys who got bullied for being in a white school. Dwight Eisenhower sent troops over to Little Rock High school to escort them into their first day of school.
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The movement was know as the Chicano movement. The movement was used to extend Mexican Civil Rights
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People were tired of wearing long boring clothes. So in the 1960's they got inspired by op-art, paisley prints, tie-dye and wore t-shirts, short dresses, and mini skirts with those prints
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A group of people from the North would take a bus down to the south and protest on the streets for segregation. Random white people who didn't want people in their cities would either block the streets when they came down or beat them to death.
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200,000 Americans went to Washington D.C. to march for freedom and jobs. The march resembled Martin Luther King's speech "I Have a Dream".
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended discrimination such as race, color, religion, or national origin. This was passed on July 2, 1964.
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President Lyndon Johnson signed this law. The law gave people the right to vote after the Civil War.
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The Black Power encouraged blacks to form black political parties. During the movement, Martin Luther king Jr. died on April 4, 1968
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A festival name woodstock was a popular attraction for over 400,000 people. Most of the counterculture was known as hippies
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A court case schedule 3 times and a landmark decision about abortion
