AMERICAN HISTORY (WRITING ASSIGNMENT) Discuss in what ways the United States was an “unfinished nation,” and how the accomplishments of the Civil Rig

AMERICAN HISTORY (WRITING ASSIGNMENT)
Discuss in what ways the United States was an “unfinished nation,” and how the accomplishments of the Civil Rights era completed the process. In your opinion, is the United States currently a “finished nation” or is there still “unfinished business” that needs to be addressed?
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U.S. A NARRATIVE HISTORY, SEVENTH EDITION
DAVIDSON DELAY HEYRMAN LYTLE STOFF

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Largely excluded from the prosperity of the
1950s, African Americans and Latinos undertook
a series of grassroots efforts to gain the legal
and social freedoms denied them by racism and,
in the South, an entrenched system of
segregation.

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The Civil Rights Movement
A Movement Becomes a Crusade
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Youth Movements

3

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The Changing South and African Americans
Mechanized cotton farming
Southern economy integrated
Decline in job opportunities for black southerners

The NAACP and Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall

NAACP had chosen not to attack head-on the Supreme
Courts separate but equal decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

4

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The Brown Decision
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

NAACP in 1950 determined to attack separate but equal
Overturned Plessy

Desegregation
To be carried out with all deliberate speed

Southern Manifesto
Issued by 19 U.S. senators and 81 representatives to

reestablish legalized segregation

5

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Latino Civil Rights
American GI Forum and League of United Latin American

Citizens (LULAC)
Supported legal challenges to school segregation

Delgado and segregated schools
Delgado et al. v. Bastrop et al.

Southwest states recognized just two races: black and white
Hernndez v. Texas and desegregation

6

[Chief Justice Earl] Warrens reasoning made it

possible for Latinos to seek redress as a group rather

than as individuals.

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A New Civil Rights Strategy
Rosa Parks

Bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence as a strategy

Little Rock and the White Backlash
School integration

Mob greeted nine black students; National Guard called in

7

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Sit-ins

Riding to Freedom
Newer civil rights organizations

SCLC; CORE; SNCC
Freedom riders attacked

Kennedy had hedged on promise of civil rights legislation

Civil Rights at High Tide
James Meredith
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The march on Washington

8

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The Fire Next Time
Tragedy in Dallas

JFK assassinated, November 22, 1963
LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Power
De facto segregation
Nation of Islam

Malcolm X
Black Power

Black Panthers

9

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Violence in the Streets
Riots

In Harlem; Rochester; Watts area of L.A.; Chicago; Newark;
Detroit

We won because we made them pay attention to us.

10

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Johnsons liberal faith

The Origins of the Great Society
Discovering poverty

Michael Harringtons The Other America (1962)
Economic Opportunity Act, 1964

The Election of 1964
Promised a Great Society

In which poverty and racial injustice no longer existed
Johnson won by a landslide

12

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The Great Society
Programs in education
Medicare and Medicaid
Immigration reform

Prejudice toward Latin Americans
The environment

Rachel Carsons Silent Spring (1962)
National Wilderness Preservation System Act, 1964

Evaluating the Great Society
High-water mark of interventionist government

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The Reforms of the Warren Court
Protecting due process

Right to legal counsel
Miranda rights

Reflections of liberal social climate
Overturned ban on sale of contraceptives (Griswold)
Banning school prayer

Principle of one person, one vote

15

Although Lyndon Johnson and Congress led the

liberal crusade in the 1960s, the Supreme Court

played an equally significant role.

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Activists on the New Left
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The Free Speech Movement
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

Vatican II and American Catholics
Pope John XXIII and Vatican II

Deal with issues of social change, such as poverty, nuclear
war, atheism, and birth control

Ecumenism
Catholics would seek understanding with other Christians

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The Rise of the Counterculture
Spiritual matters aroused secular rebels

Timothy Leary
Communes
Unconventional drugs
Ken Kesey (One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest)
Tom Wolfe (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)

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The Rock Revolution
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Soul music

The West Coast Scene
West Coast importance in counterculture
The first Be-In
The Woodstock Music Festival (1969)

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U.S. A NARRATIVE HISTORY, SEVENTH EDITION
DAVIDSON DELAY HEYRMAN LYTLE STOFF

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Largely excluded from the prosperity of the
1950s, African Americans and Latinos undertook
a series of grassroots efforts to gain the legal
and social freedoms denied them by racism and,
in the South, an entrenched system of
segregation.

2

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The Civil Rights Movement
A Movement Becomes a Crusade
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Youth Movements

3

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The Changing South and African Americans
Mechanized cotton farming
Southern economy integrated
Decline in job opportunities for black southerners

The NAACP and Civil Rights
Thurgood Marshall

NAACP had chosen not to attack head-on the Supreme
Courts separate but equal decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

4

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The Brown Decision
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

NAACP in 1950 determined to attack separate but equal
Overturned Plessy

Desegregation
To be carried out with all deliberate speed

Southern Manifesto
Issued by 19 U.S. senators and 81 representatives to

reestablish legalized segregation

5

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Latino Civil Rights
American GI Forum and League of United Latin American

Citizens (LULAC)
Supported legal challenges to school segregation

Delgado and segregated schools
Delgado et al. v. Bastrop et al.

Southwest states recognized just two races: black and white
Hernndez v. Texas and desegregation

6

[Chief Justice Earl] Warrens reasoning made it

possible for Latinos to seek redress as a group rather

than as individuals.

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A New Civil Rights Strategy
Rosa Parks

Bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence as a strategy

Little Rock and the White Backlash
School integration

Mob greeted nine black students; National Guard called in

7

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Sit-ins

Riding to Freedom
Newer civil rights organizations

SCLC; CORE; SNCC
Freedom riders attacked

Kennedy had hedged on promise of civil rights legislation

Civil Rights at High Tide
James Meredith
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The march on Washington

8

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The Fire Next Time
Tragedy in Dallas

JFK assassinated, November 22, 1963
LBJ and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Power
De facto segregation
Nation of Islam

Malcolm X
Black Power

Black Panthers

9

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Violence in the Streets
Riots

In Harlem; Rochester; Watts area of L.A.; Chicago; Newark;
Detroit

We won because we made them pay attention to us.

10

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11

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Johnsons liberal faith

The Origins of the Great Society
Discovering poverty

Michael Harringtons The Other America (1962)
Economic Opportunity Act, 1964

The Election of 1964
Promised a Great Society

In which poverty and racial injustice no longer existed
Johnson won by a landslide

12

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The Great Society
Programs in education
Medicare and Medicaid
Immigration reform

Prejudice toward Latin Americans
The environment

Rachel Carsons Silent Spring (1962)
National Wilderness Preservation System Act, 1964

Evaluating the Great Society
High-water mark of interventionist government

13

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14

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The Reforms of the Warren Court
Protecting due process

Right to legal counsel
Miranda rights

Reflections of liberal social climate
Overturned ban on sale of contraceptives (Griswold)
Banning school prayer

Principle of one person, one vote

15

Although Lyndon Johnson and Congress led the

liberal crusade in the 1960s, the Supreme Court

played an equally significant role.

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Activists on the New Left
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
The Free Speech Movement
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

Vatican II and American Catholics
Pope John XXIII and Vatican II

Deal with issues of social change, such as poverty, nuclear
war, atheism, and birth control

Ecumenism
Catholics would seek understanding with other Christians

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The Rise of the Counterculture
Spiritual matters aroused secular rebels

Timothy Leary
Communes
Unconventional drugs
Ken Kesey (One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest)
Tom Wolfe (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test)

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The Rock Revolution
Bob Dylan
The Beatles
Soul music

The West Coast Scene
West Coast importance in counterculture
The first Be-In
The Woodstock Music Festival (1969)

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