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 – Recite the opening of Chaucer’s Cantebury tales. (can you do it?)

Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X Goals: peaceful co- existance and recognition of humanity Methods: non-violence i.e. sit-ins, fill the jails, boycotts Follower of Christ Goals: Recognition of humanity and a distinctly black culture Methods: lecture, debate, violence* Nation of Islam *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, anti- establishment—big mess of causes –Counterculture - everything counter to mainstream Military strategy –Forward Operating Bases –Patrols Draw the enemy out Helicopters

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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