SSUSH 24

SSUSH 24aCompare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics, include sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing composition.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Chose Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as its first president.

• Sought to unite leaders of the black community (particularly black ministers)

• Voter registration, Education• Montgomery Bus boycott• Mass protests public

demonstrations• Non-Violent civil disobedience

Rosa Parks

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• Students that devoted themselves to non-violent forms of Protest to demand civil rights for African Americans.

• Sit-ins: blacks sit in places until they were served or arrested.

• Eventually used violence and abandoned peaceful protest.

SSUSH 24bDescribe the National Organization of Women (NOW) and the origins and goals of the modern women’s movement.

Betty Friedan• Led Women’s liberation

movement and claimed that women feeling fulfilled in the home was a myth.

• Organized interest group NOW to promote women’s equality

• Wrote The Feminine Mystique

SSUSH 24cAnalyze the anti-Vietnam War movement.

SSUSH 24dAnalyze Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers’ movement.

United Farm Workers (UFW) & Cesar Chavez

• Founded in 1962• By Cesar Chavez• Supported rights for

migrant farm workers• Conducted hunger

strikes• Used nonviolent protest

like MLK, Jr.• Boycott California table

grapes and led the 1970 labor agreement.

SSUSH 24eExplain the importance of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the resulting developments; include Earth Day, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the modern environmental movement.

Rachel Carson• Wrote “Silent Spring”• Biologist, ecologist,

Writer• Protested the use of

chemicals, Pesticides in the environment for farming, etc.

• Resulted in the Water Quality Act

• Triggered the Modern Environmental Movement

DDT• An insecticide

(Pesticide) that Rachel Carson opposed using.• Argued that it

contaminated the water supply and harmed humans and other animals.

Earth Day• A tradition established by

activist John McConnell in 1969

• April 22 intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the earth’s environment.

• Promotes recycling, clear air, and government regulation

• Protests against deterioration against the environment such as oil spills, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, etc.

EPA – Environmental Protection Administration

• Established in 1970 by President Richard Nixon

• Federal Agency with the purpose of enforcing laws aimed at maintaining a safe and clean environment.

SSUSH 24dDescribe the rise of the conservative movement as seen in the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater (1964) and the election of Richard M. Nixon (1968).

Rise of Conservative Movement

• Liberals moved to: end segregation, establish stricter regulations, and finance the “Great Society” and increasing the role of government to enforce social activism.

• A Conservative movement began to advocate less government action, lower taxes, limit government power, protect personal freedoms, protect property rights, and limit government control over social issues.

Barry Goldwater

• Senator from Arizona• Extremely

conservative• Won Republican

Presidential Nomination in 1964 in the South

Richard Nixon• Conservative Republican

Candidate elected President in 1968

• Wanted to cut government programs, give more power back to states, and turn back the aggressive tide of Civil Rights