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Latino movement
This movement was a civil rights act for the Mexican Americans of he 1960's. The act was the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. -
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Brown vs. Bored of education
A U.S. Supreme Court case where the Court announced state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students.This decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Authorities in Alabama arrested Rosa Parks when she refused to leave her seat in a white section of the city bus. Many people protested Parks' arrest by standing in bus lines. -
SCLC
This was an African-American civil rights organization. The SCLC was closely associated with its first president, which was Martin Luther King Jr, he had a large role in this American Civil Rights Movement. -
Little Rock Central High School crisis
National Guard troops stopped black children from going school. 1000 federal paratroopers were needed to escort black students and maintain peace. -
Hippies
Hippies created their own counterculture that revolved around free love, peace, drugs and music. They were the anti-establishment, mad by the Vietnam War and protested for peace. -
Black Power
Black Power was a slogan and a name for many political groups achieving "self-determination" as they said for African Americans. This event was through the 1960's and 1970's. -
United Farm Workers
a labor union for farmworkers in the U.S. This organization was accepted into the AFL-CIO in 1972. It changed its name to the United Farmworkers Union. -
Medgar Evers murdered NAACP
Kennedy addressed the nation on race, asking them "Are we to say to the world, that this is a land of the free except for Negroes" because the head of the Mississippi NAACP was shot and killed. -
Civil rights act of 1964
US labor law in the U.S. that outlaws discrimination based on peoples race, color, religion, sex, or there national origin. -
Selma March
Martin Luther King led thousands of people to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery Alabama. This March was done by the (SNCC) -
Feminist Movment
This attracted younger men and women, both black and white. The movement's commitment to racial equality, This failed to practice the equal ness of all genders and races. -
Martin L. King assassination
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room. The Motel was the Lorraine in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Roe v. Wade
Ruled unconstitutional a state law that banned abortions except to save the life of the mother. The Texas law banned all abortions except those necessary to save the life of the mother. -
counterculture
The event started in the united states and United Kingdom and then traveled across the world. Younger people were fed up with racism, gender issues, consumerism, and violence.
