USA Civil Rights IGCSE Edexcel

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

China

Eastern Europe

Germany

Atomic bomb

Berlin

Truman Doctrine

NATO

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda

during second red scare, truman made this committee to investigate members of government and dismiss those who were disloyal to u.s. government

Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood

Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's

A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.

Used to investigate communists in the state department

required all communist organizations to register with the government and to provide lists of members

1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence

Created a committee to prove McCarthy was fraud but was not elected again because McCarthy called him a communist after he stood up against McCarthy's false claims

Army

TV show that investigated and questioned McCarthy's claims

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Congress of Racial Equality

(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination

Mississippi Improvement Association

Area of the USA synonymous with racism and segregation

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman by her husband and his friends. They kidnapped him and brutally killed him. his death led to the American Civil Rights movement.

In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

A group of students who were enrolled in a white high school on the basis of being black

Arkansas governor who called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School under federal court order.

Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

White supremacist group, experienced a revival after Brown Vs Board

refuse to buy

(1956) Ended segregation in the public transportation system after the Montgomery Bus Boycott

United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama)

protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served

Site of the first lunch counter sit ins

Emmett Till had one of these, shocked the country

Deployed by Eisenhower to resolve Little Rock

Amount of bus users in Montgomery who were African American

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

provided federal protection for blacks who wished to register to vote

Tactic used by dixiecrats to delay the 1957 Civil Rights Act

southern Democrats who opposed civil rights. They caused a split in the Democratic party.

The first African American student at the University of Mississippi.

Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation

Attack on freedom riders in 1961

Governor of Mississippi who tried to prevent James Meredith from entering Ole Miss, was extremely racist

Police official of Birmingham, AL. Was a member of the KKK and supported racial segregation.

Alabama city against equal rights; peaceful marches in 1963 were broken up brutally by city police.

Used against protestors in Birmingham in 1963

Introduced civil rights bill and helped James Meredith get into Ole Mis

outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage

Protest to register African American voters in the South, violence against protesters

1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi

Murder of group of activists who tried to set help register voters

held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s

A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans

Leader of the Nation of Islam

Coined the phrase "black power" and led SNCC away from a nonviolent approach.

Protest by two African American athletes who showed the black power salute

a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites. Used armed groups to defend black communities against police brutality

A set of guidelines to the Black Panther Party's ideals and ways of operation, a "combination of a Bill of Rights and a Declaration of Independence."

week-long violence in LA after white cop struck black bystander during a traffic arrest

race riots similar to Watts in most major US cities

This commission, chaired by Otto Kerner, decided that the race riots were due to the formation of two different American cultures: inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.

Policy encouraged by Johnson to give African Americans more chance to get a higher education

transportation of students to school in an attempt to reduce racial segregation

Media, Disappointment with post war USA, emergence of teenager, new technology

End the war in Vietnam, nuclear disarmament

Students for a Democratic Society

Sit ins and rallies

Movement protesting policies instituted by the University of California at Berkeley that restricted free speech.

Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California (at Berkeley)

"how many kids did you kill today?"

A system of required military service that many protested about in the anti Vietnam protests

Bob Dylan, Jimmy Hendrix

Four killed, nine wounded by Ohio National Guard during protest of U.S. invasion of Cambodia

Promised to end the war in Vietnam, ordered the Kent State shooting

3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s. Nearly half a million attended.

500,000 protest the Vietnam war

Movement of people that valued freedom, nature, peace, sharing, and spirituality.

Johnson did not run for reelection, Nixon introduced Vietnamization