1. Current Politicians of the Boomer Generation
Born 1946
Salon.com- Boomer Generation-
Born 1961
Born 1946

2. The Warren Court
Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over one of the most activist supreme courts in the history of the U.S.
Rulings broke with traditional beliefs in American society
Expansion of Judicial Activism touched raw nerve among many Americans fearful of encroaching Federal powers
Rulings on pornography, school prayer, contraception, civil rights, and criminal rights irked conservatives and middle-class voters

3. The Warren Court (Cont.)
Case
Ruling:
Loving vs. Virginia (1967)
Laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Prayer in Public School unconstitutional
Griswald v. Connecticut (1965)
Bans on Contraception unconstitutional
Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964)
States cannot ban sexually explicit material
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Decided that redistricting issues present justiciable questions, thus enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide redistricting cases
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
The Court ruled that population must always be the "controlling consideration" in state redistricting
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Paupers in court have right to be appointed attorney at public expense
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Police must inform suspect of their right to remain silent and have an attorney present
Crash Course-
NPR-Supreme court podcast- baker v Carr

5. Riots:
Crime in the 1960s- PBS Elliot Currie

6. A Decade of Assassination:
12 June 1963
Medgar Evers
Civil rights Activist
22 Nov. 1963
JFK
21 Feb. 1965
Malcolm X
22 August 1967
George Lincoln Rockwell
American Nazi Party
4 April 1968
Martin Luther King Jr.
5 June 1968
Robert Francis Kennedy
Attorney General/ Senator

7. Rioting (1965-1968) Frustrations had been building for years.
De facto segregation, workplace discrimination, police brutality and immense poverty were the inescapable realities of ghetto life, and they chafed against the postwar national rhetoric of consensus and progress.
By the mid-1960s, ghettos around the country were tinderboxes, going off at the slightest provocation
In 1968- riots broke out in 125 cities nationwide
In their aftermath few investors, insurance companies or businesspeople were willing to return.
NJ.com-Has the U.S. learned anything from the Newark Race Riots-