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?
800 WORDS APA FORMAT double-spaced and using a standard font of 12 points. All statements must be supported and all sources must be identified and cited, and included in your reference list.
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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
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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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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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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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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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