Transcript - Our Schools

• 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 coexistance and recognition
of humanity
• Methods: non-violence
i.e. sit-ins, fill the jails,
boycotts
• Goals: Recognition of
humanity and a distinctly
black culture
• Follower of Christ
• Nation of Islam
• Methods: lecture, debate,
violence*
*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, antiestablishment—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/s
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• 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