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GI Bill of Rights
gave generous provisions to send former soldiers to school
effect: helped the economy -
Executive Order 9981
Truman established equal treatment in Armed forces -
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civil rights
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Fair Deal Program
Truman's program which allowed improved housing, a higher minimun wage, better farm price supports, new TVA's and an extension of social security
Effect: the only major success came from public housing -
American economy begins postwar growth
effect: woman gradually began work -
Jim Crow Laws
governed African Americans' lives; African Americans were arranged in seperate social arrangements
Effect: led to violence -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
ruled that segergation in the public schools was unequal and unconstitutional
effect: overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson -
Montgomery bus boycott
protest against the inequality of racial segergation on a bus
effect: put Martin Luther King on the way to the black revolution -
African Americans formed SCLC
aimed to mobilize black churches on behalf of black rights
effect: churches were the largest black institutions that had been allowed to flourish in a segergated society -
Sit in movement
four black college freshman demanded service at a whites only counter
effect: nonviolent tactic -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committe
southern black students formed this committee to give more focus and force
effect: stood up against NAACP -
The Feminine Mystique (published)
Betty Friedan gave woman focus with her feminist literature
Effect: launched the modern woman's movement -
Voter Education Project
regisered South's historically disfrachised blacks
effect: Kennedy looses support in the next election -
Martin Luther King "I have a dream"
"This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." -
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JFK Civil Rights Speecch
- “The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities; whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.”
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March on Washington
King led more than 200,000 black and white demonstraters on a peaceful march
effect: King's speech -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
banned racial discrimination in most private facilities open to the public
effect: strengthened the federal government's power to end segergation -
Johnson takes action
Johnson struck a blow for women and minorities when he issued an executive order requiring all federal contractors to take affirmative action against discrimination -
Black Power
SNCC preached theddocrine of Black powers -
Equal Rights Amendment
a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution to give women equal rights
