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Give Me Liberty! (Chapter 23 - Chapter 26)
The reason I chose all these events is that they are all relevant to discrimination. All of the events above have something to do with equality and how people did not get treated the same. Inequality was a major thing in the past because people got treated by the color of their skin instead of their personality. Most minorities not only struggle in their social life but in their professional life at work, making it difficult to find high paying jobs. -
Decolonization
The process, after World War 2, where African and Asian settlements of European domains became independent. -
Fair Deal
Concentrated on improving the social security net and increasing the expectation living of normal Americans. (EX: Increase minimum wage; national health insurance; expand public housing; Social Security; aid education) -
Operation Dixie
A crusade to carry unionization toward the south in order to break the hold of against work preservationists on the legislative issues of the area. -
Dixiecrats
Profound south delegates who left the 1948 Democratic National Convention to protest for social liberties enactment and later shaped the States' Rights Democratic Party, which named Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president. -
The Beat
A little gathering of artists and scholars who railed against standard culture. -
League of United Latin American Citizens
Often called LULAC, an organization which challenged restrictive housing, discrimination everywhere and other inequalities that Latino Americans went through. -
Brown v. Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court decision which denied racial segregation in public education and started "separate but equal". -
Montgomery bus boycott
The idea thought from Rosa Parks's arrest for refusing to give her seat to a white person. It was a year of successful boycott on buses. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Also, known as the SCLC, a civil rights organization found by MLK Jr. and other civil rights leaders. -
Southern Manifesto
A document that rejected the decision of Brown v. Board of education and supported the campaign against public racism -
Sit-Ins
Civil rights tactic in which minorities demanded the same service as whites and refused to leave if denied. -
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Also, known as SNCC, an organization to coordinate acts of civil rights protests. -
Freedom rides
Travels on a bus which challenged racial segregation which showed who had power. Many stood up for equality. (Rosa Parks) -
Civil Rights Act
Summary: I selected this as the most significant because laws changed and now everything is different. Which means everyone has to respect others. For instance, it prohibited racial discrimination employment, hospital, school, restaurant, hotel, and theatre all people need to treat everyone the same way even if they are a different skin color. Things completely changed and if you break the new law you had a punishment. This changed the world as it is today due to everyone being mixed in. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans covered the nation's capital, all behind civil rights of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Civil Rights Act
Prohibition of all discrimination EVERYWHERE. -
Voting Rights Act
Allowed federal officials to register voters which authorized federal protection of the right to vote. -
Black Power
A rallying cry due to the failure of the federal government's power to stop violence with civil rights. -
Affirmative action
Efforts to promote minorities for greater opportunity in employment. -
Busing
To achieve school integration and equality buses were to transport students. -
Reverse discrimination
Where white felt not equal due to affirmative action programs. -
Title IX (9)
Banned gender discrimination in higher education, which let woman and men be able to do whichever job they desired.
