• 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 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

Watergate

• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=C2B66BBC-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