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• Brown vs. Board of Education = Desegregation of Schools Overturned • Plessy vs. Ferguson = Separate but Equal • Mnemonic Devices? • Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Abolishes Voting discrimination – Establishes equal opportunity for Gov’t – EEOC • Judicial Review – “Activist Judges” – Found a law “to be unconstitutional” • Civil Disobedience – Henry Thoreau – don’t cooperate with unjust laws • Barrier to voting – http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.htm Recite the opening of Chaucer’s Cantebury tales. (can you do it?) Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X • Goals: peaceful coexistance and recognition of humanity • Methods: non-violence i.e. sit-ins, fill the jails, boycotts • Goals: Recognition of humanity and a distinctly black culture • Follower of Christ • Nation of Islam • Methods: lecture, debate, violence* *later renounced violence Great Society • President Lyndon Johnson’s Social Reform • Goals: think John Edwards—no one in poverty, everyone’s basic needs are met, reacial and economic equality • Welfare! Medicaid! Entitlement programs! Vietnam • U. S. involvement – Bailed out the French – Escalated as we tried to stop the spread of communism • Expansion of war – Started as advisors to South Vietnam – Needed more troops to protect our advisors and provide security – Expanded to campbodia to go after supply lines Vietnam • Protest movement – Fueled by hippies and drugs – Anti-war, pro-peace, pro-love, anti-capitalism, antiestablishment—big mess of causes – Counterculture - everything counter to mainstream • Military strategy – Forward Operating Bases – Patrols • Draw the enemy out • Helicopters Watergate • http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/s earch/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=C2B6 6BBC-2ED4-471A-BDF0-38E460B1CBFC • Black People: to cities • White People: to suburbs • Mexicans: to southwest (migrant workers) • Modern conservatism – RXN to ’70’s drug use – Family values • Breakup of the Soviet Union – USSR loosened and opened – Then fell apart • NAFTA—North American Free Trade Agreement – Good for: American Consumers – Bad for: American Workers • Patriot Act – More power to federal gov’t in exchange for security